The committee report on College Requisitions before the Board of Over-seers on Wednesday touches on one or two points of much interest to the students at large. One of these is the recommendation that "a more constant attendance at recitations should be required." The majority of college men find now the attendance at recitations as fully restricted as necessary. Under our system, the recitation or lecture is merely directive, and does not by any means represent the work of the course. Library work, laboratory work, independent study form a large part of many of the most important courses. If, then, recitation attend dance is to be more sharply looked after, let these other things count also. Let a man's three or four hours in the library, or extra time in the laboratory balance against some of his non-attendance at recitations.
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