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...Theme in English 5 due today...
...best way to understand and judge the elective system is to see its practical workings. Courses in ancient languages are taken by 564 men, of whom 295 take Greek and 209 Latin. Courses in modern languages are taken by 807 men, of whom 324 take German, 178 English, 188 French and 51 Italian. 182 men elect Philosophy, 188 Political Economy and 588 History, while Fine Arts is elected by 138. Courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History occupy the attention...
Another glaring fault is seen in the department of English. While the elective courses in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Beowulf are conducted in the most unexceptionable manner, the required work of the department (the only work required after freshmen year) is notoriously a failure. The instruction in rhetoric is ridiculous and imbecile, while the so-called "instruction" in forensics consists in handing in a few sheets of paper every two months and in being marked upon the same, not a word of advice or criticism ever being given. In themes, however, the written exercise is returned with some cabalistic pencil marks...
...latter a success. On the other hand, the novelty of the situation has allowed abuses and failures to find a place from which they should speedily be ousted. The greatest need of the college is broad and thorough instruction in the practical matters of the use of the English language and the principles of political science and American history. When these gaps are well filled Harvard's free and liberal system will firmly secure to her the position which she now holds by a somewhat frail tenure, that of the foremost American universities. In spite of many faults and failures...
...lecturer, describing the influence of rent on the distribution of wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying...