Excerpt from The Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 6: September 30, 1905 F or the line, Captain Cooney must depend largely upon substitutes, including Caro thers '06, who weighs about 185 pounds and is being tried at center; Rafferty '06, who is again out for guard and is doing better than heretofore; Waller '06, also at guard; and Herring '07, Baker '07, and Brown'07 at tackle. For end the leading candidates are Tooker '06, right end on last year's eleven; Brasher '06, Munn '06, who has been tried back of the line for three years, and Fryer, the Hill School freshman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...has been destructive, not constructive. Much that Mr. Robbins says is most pertineiit and true. Yet the mere easing of entrance examinations, even if done systematically and scientifically, would serve only to admit more of the feeble and incompetent. Why should not Princeton take the lead in a reform here as well as in the work of the University? Surely this is a very practical matter, and one for more than casual letter-comment. It ought to be possible to work out a plan by which a boy's whole school record can be taken seriously into account on his entrance as well as his examination paper. The certificate system is a poor one as it operates to-day, and the examination system opens the door to the crammer, to the ignorant with strong nerves, and to the lucky. If the University should require the educational history of each boy who enters, if this were carefully studied by an entrance committee, and if this were made a real factor in admission, used in c0iijunction with entrance papers, the schools that do legitimate work would be greatly benefitted, cramming would be actually as well as theoretically discredited, and the calibre of entering students would be improved. I have in mind the case of a boy who gets nervous in examinations, who has done steady, faithful, secondgroup work for three years in a good school. Yet he failed badly in his preliminaries owing to nervousness, while others, much poorer students, passed on their "nerve." Such cases are not rare. But the advantages of such 21 system go further. It would tend to unify the course of a boy's education. The University would be able to lay its finger on the causes of weakness in the elementary and preparatory school stages. Parents might ultimately wake up to...