. History of Franklin and Marshall College; Franklin College, 1787-1853; Marshall College, 1836-1853; Franklin and Marshall College, 1853-1903. of the College had lookedforward for many years, and there was great fees are still collected, as has always been done;but they are smaller in amount than in most literaryinstitutions. It is partly due to the abolition of fees fortuition that the necessary expenses of students may be keptwithin unusually narrow limits. It was also in 1891 that the Biennial Test examinationswere abolished. To the present generation of students itmay be
. History of Franklin and Marshall College; Franklin College, 1787-1853; Marshall College, 1836-1853; Franklin and Marshall College, 1853-1903. of the College had lookedforward for many years, and there was great fees are still collected, as has always been done;but they are smaller in amount than in most literaryinstitutions. It is partly due to the abolition of fees fortuition that the necessary expenses of students may be keptwithin unusually narrow limits. It was also in 1891 that the Biennial Test examinationswere abolished. To the present generation of students itmay be necessary to explain that these examinations wereheld at the end of the Sophomore and Senior years, andwere in their day regarded as the chief bugbear of thecourse. In each instance the student was examined on allthe branches studied during the previous two years, andon his success in this examination his promotion method had been employed since 1857, and it hardlyseemed possible that it could ever be abrogated. TheSophomore Test was peculiarly trying, and many studentsfailed to be promoted. Efforts were frequently made to. ATHLETICS. 353 escape the ordeal, but generally without success. Once,however, it is said, a smart Sophomore, who felt theTest approaching, applied for a regular dismissal to aninstitution in which no such examination existed. Theapplication could not well be refused and the transitionwas duly made; but at the opening of the next term hewas, at his own request, dismissed back to Franklin andMarshall and was admitted ad eundern to the Junior class,thus escaping the Sophomore Test. If this story is au-thentic it was a peculiarly sharp trick. The Tests were, of course, intended to promote study,as well as to preserve the imity of the course; but itwas claimed that they induced inordinate crammingand in some instances wrought positive injustice. How-ever this may have been, it is certain that the institutiondid not suffer from their discontinuance
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