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...requirements for admission are much the same as those for Harvard, although French and German are taken as an equivalent for Greek. The course for the degree of Bachelor of Arts is expected to take four years, and is a combination of the curriculum, group and elective systems. Thus, while each student is required to pursue certain studies whose usefulness is acknowledged, she may as the same time by a proper choice of "groups" and "free electives" make out a general course embracing almost as great a variety of subjects as we have here at Harvard, or she may even...
...studies made by the two freshman classes who have had the privilege of election, is given at the close of the Dean's report. In the present freshman class 191 have elected Latin, 132 History, 125 Greek, 100 French, 92 Mathematics, and 82, 36, 19 and 18, Natural History, German, Chemistry and Physics respectively. The choices of 36 have included Greek, Latin and Mathematics...
Marks are out in French I and German...
...Harvard took in throwing open the electives to freshmen was premature. As we have no system of school education in America which brings young fellows of eighteen or nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty of an American University to complete this academical training. In other words, he would prefer to have prescribed work in the freshman year, at least; and for the latter years he advocates a system of groups of study...
Another point which Mr. Brearley leaves out of consideration is that the German students generally serve a year in the army, between their graduation from the high schools and their matriculation at a university. In this active, open air life, they learn a good bit of world-wisdom which serves them well in their general intellectual development. From all this, it must be perfectly patent to every unprejudiced mind that the German student, at nineteen or twenty years of age, is more competent to make his own selections in the matter of study than we are with our imperfect...