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...meeting of the Board of Overseers, held April 10, the following appointments were confirmed: Charles H. Wiswell, A. B, '77, and William J. Nichols, A. B., '74, as proctors; Edward S. Sheldon, A. B., as tutor in German from September 1, 1878; Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph. D., as instructor in History for the ensuing academic year; H. B. Hodges as instructor in Chemistry and German; E. L. Mark, Ph. D., as instructor in Zoology; Silas Marcus MacVane, A. B., as instructor in History; James L. Laughlin, Ph. D., as instructor in Political Economy; Dr. T. M. Rotch as clinical instructor...
...German student, on the other hand, is hampered by no marks, no routine, no surveillance, no compulsory recitations; he is not treated like a school-boy, and hence does not behave like one. He cannot calculate what per cent he must obtain in order to scrape through. He must either leave or drop out, either succeed or fail. Hence he does not "cram" for an examination with matter which he will throw away afterward, but studies with a view to permanent results. In short, he is free to be what his own talents and energy may make him. The result...
...been said that universities are the last places into which reform penetrates; but we feel that there is a tendency in the right direction here. If the German system were adopted, Harvard would no longer train up hot-house scholars, but men who would put forth their best energies, not for marks, but to assimilate their studies...
Says Wolf, "They study ill who study for examination; well, who study for themselves and for life." Under the German system it would be no longer true that distinctions conferred by the students are more prized than those conferred by the college. It would be no longer true that the most successful men in after life are not those who have been most successful during their college career. To discourage a spirit of ungenerous rivalry and to curb the impatience of a morbid ambition, is the noblest work of the higher education. This work Harvard not only does not advance...
Would we, then, have the entire German system? We answer, No. We would not have the German system, nor the English, nor the so-called American. We would not have the German lack of moral control, nor the English "cram" and conservatism and absurd mediaeval customs, nor the American routine. But we would have the German liberality, the English manners, and the American customs. We would have a system which, while it avoided the evils, should combine the advantages...