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This great question of elective vs. prescribed studies is still unsettled, and everyone's opinion on it should be treated with respect. When, however, one argues from such premises as above, some protest, in justice to the name of truth, should be uttered. By reference to the Dean's report, our esteemed contemporary will find that in the year 1883-84, the most popular courses in our college were not by any means the "snaps" or easy courses that appear in our elective pamphlet, but that, on the contrary, the hardest courses, those requiring the greatest research, and the most...
...This question is one that should call for a statement of the advantages of each system, and not of the possible evils that exist under any system that is not absolutely devoid of choice on the part of the student...
...clause specifying that a majority of student members shall have power to call a meeting of the conference, and states that there was an understanding between the faculty and the faculty members of the committee to that effect. As a matter of fact, the faculty left the whole question as to how and when meetings should be called to be decided by the committee itself-that is, to the student members. Such a matter falls naturally under the head of by-laws, and would therefore be arranged with other by-laws at the first meeting of the conference. The omission...
English VI. Oral Discussion. Dr. Royce. Sever 11, 2 P.M. Question: What should be the limits set by the College authorities to the freedom of self-government on the part of the body of students...
...years ago, and it may be safely stated even at the present time, in some portions of the country no phrase was more potent to dissuade parents from sending their sons to the leading American college than that of "Harvard Unitarianism." Putting aside all discussion of the religious question, how could such an absurd idea take possession of peoples minds that Harvard college was not only a training school for the mental qualities of its students, but also for their religious morals? "Any college that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief...