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...Amherst faculty has decided to adopt the English method of pronunciation of Latin...
...hoped that the Conference Committee will soon be able to effect some arrangement whereby the present system of examination will be modified. Under the present regime, there seems to be and possibly there can be, no uniformity of method in preparing examination papers. Some instructors give short papers with few questions and expect to have each question pretty thoroughly discussed. Other instructors give long papers with numerous questions. The answers to such questions must necessarily be brief; owing to their brevity they are liable to be faulty, even with the most careful student, and it is not likely that they...
This year attention has been drawn to a change in our curriculum. Two new courses, Political Economy X and History XX, have been established, wholly or in large part as experiments, which are important because they introduce into undergraduate work an entirely different method of study from that hitherto pursued. These courses are open only to graduates and to 'undergraduates of high rank or special promise,' and are intended to afford an opportunity for the special investigation of topics under the guidance of an instructor...
...publish in another column a reply to a previous communication on the present method of study in English VIII. About the same time last year we published a similar communication concerning the parallel course of the one in question, English VIII. But the complaint in the first case was that a too microscopic study of a writer's work was made, while the study of his life was wholly neglected. To criticise the method of study at present pursued by Professor Hill would give rise to a host of suggestions as to the correct way in which a course...
...review of all the petty incidents in this writer's life, and, at the most, one-half hour is spent in the consideration of his writings, it is difficult to believe that we are gaining our object in taking this course. With some authors we might pursue this method with advantage, but it seems to be unnecessary to do so when we come to discuss an author whose life and actions were of such shameless degradation that they should be referred to only in order to subject them to the severest condemnation. With all due regard to French Realism...