Word: elections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prescribed course which members of '84, and earlier classes, pursued, was Rhetoric and six themes in the sophomore year, six themes and four short forensics in the junior, and four similar forensics in the senior year. There was also an opportunity for those who could write very well to elect English V, a special course in composition, for one or two years...
Under the rather long heading "Compulsory Attendance of College Students at Chapel Services," the Journal of Education has an article that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special...
...complications have arisen as to the number of them that may be taken at one time. If the present courses prove successful, as we have no doubt they will, and the other departments offer similar ones, a very considerable problem looms up in the near future. Can a student elect more than one such course at one time? It seems to us eminently proper that he should be allowed to do this. In our opinion an earnest man could carry two of these special courses, and do in each more than sufficient work to justify his being allowed to enter...
...shall, some time during the next few months, elect an editor from the freshman class, possibly more than one, if there are candidates of sufficient ability. As yet eighty-nine has contributed but meagerly to our columns. Short articles of interest to students, communications, direct and to the point, on some live subject, will always find place in the paper. Educational and athletic news will be acceptable; enterprise in collecting college news is a consideration which always has much weight with us in choosing a new editor. Eighty-nine should not fail to contribute its share to the college papers...
...hundred courses in subjects ranging from Semitic to Natural History, it seems strange that one study, of interest to every one, should be almost entirely neglected. We refer to that grandest of sciences, astronomy. We know that there is a course given in college, set down in the elective pamphlet as Mathematics XII, which treats of "descriptive and epherical astronomy." Doubtless many students might like to elect the course if it were not for the fact that a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such...