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doing well. I particularly speak of mathematics — the power of the Calculus — its universal application to all realms of science. However each of you, who pursues some studies beyond high school work, will learn of that. Let me give you an idea as to the external life as it exists at Rose Polytechnic Institute. Our presence is required five and one-half days per week. The schedule of recitation and office or shop work is variable as regards time, that is, some days we are at the Institute from 8 to 12 o ' clock in the morning and from 4 to 6 o ' clock in the afternoon, other days from 10 to 12 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the after- noon. During the spring term, however, the institute closes at 5 o ' clock in the afternoon, so as to give students, who wish, time to take out-door exercise. The work must therefore begin at 7 and 1 o ' clock. There is no general assembly room for the classes and the work is continuous. Recitations are one hour in length, while shop or office work runs continuously from three to five hours. The greater part of recitation work is given over to lectures by the professor in charge, on the subject-matter under con- sideration. Of course we never fail to provide ourselves with three or four note-books, and we are kept quite busy jotting down notes, as the professor talks. During each term there are fre- quent quizzes on the work pursued, the results of which to a great extent determine one ' s class mark. There are three terms per year. At the end of each, examinations are taken on the work considered. The time limit for an examination is four hours for each subject. Four or five days are usually required to complete the examinations. The general average must be 60 per cent., and the minimum allowable in any one subject 40 per cent. This prevents spe- cializing. The only rule regulating absences is that for each absence a proportional part is deducted from the recitation mark. The resulting mark is averaged with the examination mark by the registrar. HENRY LESER, M. T. H. S. Feb. ' 96, R. P. I. ' 00. Terre Haute, April, 1899.
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that bind us to tradition. To do a thing and show why it was done has been my maker ' s ultimate aim. Because taste, that most individual of things, has become a convention and is ana- lyzed by empirical canons, because of that I say, a few of us seem to lack that which is most looked for. We are expressions of impressions, and in that purpose lies the triumph of the precept negative. New York, April, 1899. ANTON SCHERRER, M. T. H. S., Feb., ' 96. Columbia University, ' 00. To the Editor of the Annual : It is three years since I have ceased being an active member of the Industrial Training School — the old name still clings to me and it is doubtful if I ever can become accustomed to the new one — but I still retain many fond recollections and recall with pleasure the many hours I have spent within its walls. I feel particularly indebted to it, for it opened the way to learning and awakened in me a desire to pursue studies, which it indicated to me. Many of you have doubtlessly been influenced by it in the same manner, and are anxiously looking forward to the time when you hope to be college students, and are wondering whether there is a marked distinction between high school and college work. As to the nature of work at Rose Polytechnic Institute, it is useless for me to attempt a description of it, since all of you are not interested in the same kinds of studies, and engineering would not appeal to you. But allow me to state that no matter what field of study you pursue, you will probably be surprised at its magnitude and its vastness, and you will soon realize that, if you become master of only a very small portion of it, you are
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