Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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English, geograx)hy, and free-handdrawing. Those boys who pass through the three 432 THE REyiElV OF RE^IEIVS. higher classes study history, botany, the elementsof physiology, physics and chemistry, algebra,geometry, trigonometry-, and land-surve5nng At-tention is paid to mechanical drawing and short-hand, while all are carefully instructed in music,according to the express wish of Jolm McDonogh.German begins in the fourth class, and is taughtwith especial thoroughness through the four highergrades. So that, with the addition of French on occasion, exception; there is absolutely no helping or hocuspocus of any kind in examinations. An evenbolder, but equally true, statement is that theMcDonogh boy does not cram for examinations;partly because he is practically examined exeryday, and the term-marks preponderate in valueover the examination averages, and partly, I sup-pose, because he is a healthy individual in a healthyatmosphere, not a strained organism in an Intellectual forcing-bed.
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THE LIBRARY. graduates are prepared for any of the colleges of thecountry, and those who enter the Johns HopkinsUniv&rsitj find themselves in rather better trimthan the average candidate for matriculation. All recitations and exercises are marked with thegreatest care. The record of each boy—his aver-.age—is published once a month in The Week.After intermediate examinations his Christmasfurlough depends in length—from six to nine days—on his general average, and in the spring, after^ finals, ■ his summer furlough—from four to twelvedays—depends on his standing for the whole year.This means that any dishonest method of obtaininga high mark is virtually robbing a schoolmate ofholiday The result is a rule t>^ ^vhich there is no FARM, GARDEN, AND WORKSHOPS. Before ranks are broken after dinner the com-manding ofiicer reads out the work assigned forthe afternoon. The boys are sent in squads to thevarious tasks, each squad being composed of manylarge or a few small ojie

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