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Each year sees some improvement in these organizations. Though they may lose valuable men,- the Glee Club some singers, the Banjo and Pierian some instrumentalists, yet the general course of all of them is onward. They each fill their niche in the organism of the University; and it would be well if every other part performed its function as completely...
...will push those intentions with a fair degree of tenacity through the distractions which beset his daily path? We need, indeed we must have, a third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than...
...York held its annual dinner. In his speech, President Eliot said some very hopeful things about Harvard. She is, he declares, turning out better scholars to-day than she was twenty years ago. The elective system, he says most emphatically, has not been a failure. We have gone steadily onward; and though the system has been broadened, the requirements for admission have never been lowered, but are gradually being raised...
Some years ago, Williams College was in certain respects conducted somewhat on a boarding-school plan, and the men regarded a little in the light of boys. But of late more toleration has been used, more liberty given, and the onward movement to a certain extent consummated by the establishment of the conference committees. That this organization has accomplished something for the interests of the students might be shown by several instances, notably in matters connected with the ball nine, in changing the time of the senior elective examinations, and in undoubtedly' producing an effect on the minds...
...From now onward the Harvard student meets the full elective system, and has no prescribed studies. If the sees fit, he may take Hebrew, French, Music, and Botany. If he wants however, something that is not simply incongrous, but in the nature of a "snap" he might drop the Hebrew and by little shifting around, keeping an eye open to the avoidance of conflicts in his weekly schedule, take French, Music, and Botany, and in place of the Hebrew, a course in elementary Fine Art where "practice in Drawing, including the use of water-colors, forms a considerable part...