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...trust that the instructor in Political Economy 1, will not carry out his plan of holding a fourth hour recitation in the week, for the purpose of answering questions. Although this extra hour is supposed to be voluntary, it practically makes the course a four hour one, as all who have questions to ask will be obliged to attend, and the instructor has announced that he expected questions from all and that the full benefit of the course could not be obtained without a free use of questions and open discussion. Another thing which makes this hour compulsory...
...club may write and have posted their letters; beyond is the smoking room. In fact, the Cambridge Union is a club organized as a gentleman's club with the end in view of holding weekly debates. Now why could not the Union here begin on something like this plan, first by making a yearly assessment on its members; with this money it could hire and fit up some rooms, and as it grew it could become more and more of a club. That the advantages of such a club open to the whole college with some restrictions, would be inestimable...
...college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very slight success in accomplishing the end aimed at. What plan the college can adopt to improve it in this respect it is difficult to suggest...
...retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation of students, by and for which the university was founded and endowed. But however beautiful this plan may seem, and notwithstanding the enormous sums devoted to it, in the opinion of all unprejudiced Englishmen it does but little for science; manifestly because most of these young men, although they are the pick of the students, and in the most favorable conditions possible for scientific work, have...
...faculty of Harvard are contemplating the plan of introducing the electric system into the examinations for entrance.-[Oberlin Review...