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...requirement in many courses. There can be no doubt, however, of their value as a means of gaining and testing knowledge, when the subjects of such exercises include important details of the central matter of any course. In History 13 the two long pieces of work, one in each half-year, are either mere bibliographies of some historical character or reports upon infinitesimal and often insignificant details of the slavery question. Among the former class of subjects the individuals treated are frequently of very minor importance...
From the reports on slavery required in the second half-year, the same sort of knowledge is gained, but the books and subject matter concerned are frequently of even less importance. To require 20 or more hours work from a man broadly interested in American history in preparing a thesis upon "veritable instances of negro dialect in slavery times" is an imposition; and when the desired references are to books of such historical value as "Uncle Remus" it becomes almost ludicrous. To require from a serious student of the broad facts of our history an account of the best anti...
Comparative Literature 1 1-hf, by Professor Wendell, will be a half-course in the first half-year in 1910-11, and there will also be an addition of Comparative Literature 34 2-hf and 35 2-hf, dealing with the dramatic works of Grillparzer, and Life in the Middle Ages...
Daily exercises in all courses end for the second half-year on Saturday, June 4, at 2.30 P. M. Monday, June 6. Architecture 3b, Robinson Architecture 3c, Robinson Astronomy 4, Astron. Lab. Botany 1, New Lect. Hall Chemistry 11, Sever 30 Class. Philol. 51, Sever 29 Comp. Lit. 6b, Lower Mass. Economics 9b, Upper Mass. Economics 11, Sever 6 Education 2b, Sever 5, 6 Engineering 1e, Pierce 212 English 28 hf., Fogg Lecture Room English 41, Harvard 5, 6 Fine Arts 6, Sever 17 French 6, Sever 23, 24 French 6c, Sever 17 French 9, Sever 18 French...
...theses in most courses which now require them become due at the end or shortly before the end of each half-year. If a student takes several such courses, he suddenly finds himself swamped with a quantity of written work which it is next to impossible for him to handle. Even if the subjects for these theses were given out at the beginning of the half-year, it would be expecting too much foresight from the undergraduate to presume that he would distribute the work so as to get it all done thoroughly by the time it came...