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...fact of course could be within the bounds of possibility, but we can see no reason why it should be considered probable. There is of course the chance that as the Harvard faculty grows narrower and more stringent in its ideas, the corporation will become more liberal and broad-minded,-that while the one is engaged in hedging athletics round with impossible restrictions, the other may be drifting towards a progressive policy in chapel regulations...
...equally superficial with those who, in accordance with "third reform" take but one course in each "branch of knowledge." If this be so, it seems to argue that the college only affords the one course, in each "branch," that is of any value, and that the seeker after a "broad education" is always fortunate enough to know how to select this course. It is surely encouraging to find that one can learn all that the college can teach, without studying the numerous courses that she offers...
...Broad education" and "specialism" are both good in 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...
Without wishing to do any "injustice to the specialist," but merely as one whose own brief experience in the world has been to find the specialist of college quite as often open to the charge of superficiality as the possessors of a broad education, I am anxious to know whether my experience is of an anomalous kind. Moreover, as one who has advised an undergraduate this year, with a view to gaining rather a broad education than a special one, to risk losing his college distinctions and take a varied course, I should be glad to know whether...
...gratifying to see that the broad policy inaugurated at Harvard some years ago and the constant fostering and enlargement of the elective system, with its wider range and greater attractions, are bearing such good fruit. That this broad policy should win over a large school, formerly averse to the simple mention of the word Harvard, and induce the instructors to change to more liberal methods of instruction augurs well for the popular hold which the Harvard elective system is acquiring among students in general...