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...attraction for him, and repelled from studies in which he would take a genuine interest. The secret of the cure for this evil seems to be in the fact that it is the students who determine the amount of work required in each elective. A change suggested in the recent discussion of the question in our columns recognizes this fact. The plan is to represent the value of each elective by the ratio between the average marks which the members of that elective received in their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. Some electives might thus...
...recent meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni in New York it was voted that the sense of the meeting was in favor of a bill which is to be submitted to the Legislature of Maine providing that the board of overseers of Bowdoin College shall be elected by a direct vote of the Alumni, as is done at Harvard...
...Fifty years ago, said Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent address on Wendell Phillips, during my college life, I was chosen to debate the question of African colonization, which, just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life...
...Providence, R. I., the seat of Brown University, the resolutions adopted at the recent conference of college committees in New York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail...
...still another course which has been suggested for the department and which many would be glad to see taught next year, if possible. That is a course supplementary to History 2, though of a somewhat different character, involving not only constitutional but also narrative and general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn historical topics suggested by recent events such as the present invasion of Egypt, the Tonquin War, or in another field historical questions suggested by the present political condition of Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany...