SNIPING FOR SNAP COURSES

In the fall and at about the present time there begins a determined and wide-spread hunt for suitable snap courses, or in other words courses that are supposed to yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit as Ponce de Leon and the explorers of old spent their lives seeking the fountain of youth, and so far with exactly similar results.

The College Office has also spent considerable time in the pursuit of the elusive snap course, and by means of fixed standards of marking and other ingenious devices it has produced a very salutary effect. Hounded in this fashion both by Office and students, the poor snap course has ceased to exist as a separate species. There are still hard courses and easy courses, it is true, but the student will now find that what he gets out of a course both in marks and in knowledge depends very nearly upon what he puts into it in the way of conscientious endeavor.