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...similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would get about as much good from these studies as he would get from any others. Now there are two kinds of modified election which I indorse. I believe that it is a good plan to give students a choice between a number of different courses each made up of studies which he is obliged to follow when he selects that course; and secondly, I believe in a fixed curriculum of required studies, to which a student may add a certain number of studies...
...system by which the daily papers might be utilized by the management of the library to the advantage of the students. We hope that the recommendation will be followed. For this want of a speedy and easy reference to recent newspaper publications has long been felt, and a plan to meet it successfully would greatly be appreciated by the students. Many valuable newspaper articles bearing upon topics of great moment are practically lost from the present inefficient means for preserving them. When such articles have become history, they have an additional value which is only too often enhanced by their...
...Club at its last meeting voted to have a shingle, designed by members of the club. The designs will be on exhibition in the rooms, and that receiving the most votes, will be adopted. To make the plan more popular, a prize has been offered to the member whose design is successful...
...sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years ago, the number of hours of elective work per week was but 168, as against 382 hours of electives, from which students are now allowed to chose their work...
...These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...