The new system of taking attendance in the larger courses in college is certainly a great improvement on the old system of calling the roll and having "spotters." With a hundred names or more on the list, the calling of the roll is a long and tiresome ordeal for both instructor and student. But the new system, that of having the men sign their names on slips of paper at each recitation, is certainly a relief to the instructors and, we may well suppose, not at all disagreeable to the monitors.
No man has any special objection to signing his name, indeed many are only too glad to get an opportunity. Further, the men in the favored courses may congratulate themselves on no longer having to sit on certain square feet of settee to insure their being "spotted." The new system is in every way so desirable that we wonder that it is not introduced even into courses where the sections are much smaller than those in History 2, N. H. 4, or Eng. 7.
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