Word: branch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their respective ways: without the former, the world would be a chaotic mass of egotism; without the latter, progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...
...devote all possible time and energy to a course, and pass perfect examinations, and yet his work count less than that of this favored superficialist, who has spent less time on the course, but receives the higher mark because he has taken no other course in the same branch...
...system and suggest remedies, but unfortunately what seems a remedy to one appears as an injustice to another. I refer to the "third reform" which the author of the above mentioned article suggests, which is essentially as follows: that, since the fact of having taken one course in any branch of knowledge, renders a student more fitted to advance in other courses of that branch, this should be discouraged by making these advanced courses only count one or two-thirds of the standard value to that student. The author of "Our Ranking System" thus declares himself as a champion...
...elective system, since he would destroy its advantages by placing a premium upon a superficial education, such as is to be obtained in the prescribed course which most. American colleges require. It certainly would seem an injustice toward those who come to Harvard for thorough study in some particular branch of knowledge, that those courses which are included in their specialty should only count for them a fraction of their standard value-simply that some superficialist may have the possibility, thus denied to the specialist, of attaining a high rank...
...year, and this is an obvious gain to the student of nearly three hours a week for half a year,-a very considerable item in a man's college career. Besides this, they supply the need of those who are willing to devote half a year to some special branch of a subject but are unable to assume the extra work that a half course for a whole year really meant, for the new courses only require one examination...