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...Dining Association, it is to be hoped that members will not be backward in sending in names. The next set of officers will necessarily have matters of unusual importance to deal with, as there is soon to be a change in the management of the hall; consequently great care should be exercised in making selections. We hope that the usual apathy attendant upon Memorial elections will disappear, and that all members will interest themselves both in sending in nominations and seeing that their votes are cast at the elections...
From files of the Era, I find that student opinion was opposed to the admission of lady students when the proposal to admit them was first made. The following table, compiled from statistics of graduating classes, will illustrate the changes which that opinion has undergone. Many seniors do not care to give their opinions...
...theses for forensics in the case of men who are not candidates for honors, but their efforts have not as yet met with success owing to the fear that the study of English proper might suffer. This fear, however, seems to us ungrounded, when we consider how much greater care is generally given to the preparation of theses than of forensics. Another reason for confining this privilege to candidates for honors may be that it is meant as an additional inducement to students to try for honors. We cannot see, however, that anything but good could result from extending this...
...writer in the Portland Transcript, commenting on the subject of elective studies in colleges, which as he declares is "one of the live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that he is incapable of pursuing successfully, and he should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second...
...should be required - as indeed he is, at Johns Hopkins University - to select some four or five subjects or departments, and to confine himself to these during his course, and this is practically what all of the good students do, and they select their studies with much thought and care. But the poorer students naturally do nothing of the sort. Yet with all its drawbacks the elective system has worked well, as far as I can learn, wherever it was introduced. The student does better what he elects for himself, and in most cases he chooses that which...