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JUDGING from several newspaper articles, there seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the proposed plan of private instruction for young women in Cambridge. The opinion prevails that a way has been found to admit women to Harvard College. Nothing of the kind has been done. Provisions have been made to enable young women to be instructed by Harvard professors: and if in time the number of such students becomes large enough, a second university may be built up at the side of Harvard which will give young women the same college advantages that young men have at present...
...plan proposed will give to a student the credit due him for proficiency in any special study, and at the same time retain all the advantages heretofore derived from an average. It is a long step forward in the direction of doing greater justice to all, and is a necessary corollary to the elective system, and therefore it is earnestly to be hoped that it will be adopted...
...plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing...
...plan of degrees and honors proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention has passed the Faculty with some modifications, and will now come before the Overseers. 80 per cent on eight hours, instead of on six, will be required for Honorable Mention, but if the subject is English, 85 per cent will be required. The degree of A. B. cum laude will be given to every one who attains 75 per cent on his college course, or receives Honorable Mention in one study, provided in the last case that he attains 70 per cent on his college course...
...order that the sentiments of the various Clubs in America may be ascertained and the Consular Corps advised thereof, it is very desirable that such as may think favorably of the plan shall communicate with me with the least possible delay...