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...Oftentimes a student is so pressed in one course with special work that he receives ultimate benefit by neglecting his other course for a day or two. A friend's notes or diligent reading can make the omission good. In these cases, non-attendance shows, not absence from the post of duty, but concentrated work in some other department. Again, the free elective system is not claimed to benefit everyone and anyone. There are some at Harvard who ought not to be here, who are positive drags on the college. Deduct the records of these men, who at other colleges...
...following unqualified commendation of our prayer petition appeared editorially in a recent issue of the New York Evening Post...
Last Friday's issue of the Evening Post contains an admirable letter on the oft repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational...
...Evening Post of Dec. 15, has a long letter from Princeton on the proposed changes in the curriculum. The same number contains a comparison of the elective systems of Cornell, Harvard and Ann Arbor...
...Woodruff, '89. Peters has positively refused to sit in the boat again, and Paton has not yet appeared at the boat house. Captain Cowles finds the optional system a serious drawback to his getting the men out together and thus far not very satisfactory results have been attained. - Post...