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...close of the freshman year the student is allowed to choose one of the following ten courses: civil, mechanical, electrical, or mining engineering, architecture, chemistry, natural history, biology, physics, or the general course. When his choice is once made, the student is required to follow it up through the regular studies pertaining to it, during the remainder of his course. There are, in addition, a few optional studies, but so much time is necessary to accomplish the required work that few men avail themselves of the chance to study extras. Indeed, such hard application is necessary to meet the requirements...
Besides the regular scientific college course, the corporation has established two schools for manual training, the School of Mechanic Arts, with 66 men, and the Lowell School of Design, with 61 men and women. These bring up the total number of persons receiving instructions under the care of the corporation 709; but the two manual schools cannot properly be considered collegiate in nature. The Institute, situated as it is in the midst of the city, where land is very valuable, has no dormitories. The buildings belonging to it are four in number, the original Rogers Building, the New Building...
...much work on their hands the question naturally rises; "What means of recreation and pleasure do the students enjoy? They have the advantage of easy access to all the public amusements which a large city like Boston affords, but beyond that their means are limited. Not having any regular athletic grounds, their opportunities for out-of-door games are rather poor. It is largely to this cause and the want of leisure hours that the "Tech" men have figured so poorly in athletics. Moreover, the spring term closing at the end of May brings the examination period so early that...
...musical entertainment, the new gymnasium will be open to inspection. This is already partially furnished, under the direction of Dr. Sargent of Cambridge, whose system is to be carried out by Miss Ransom, a graduate of his class for teachers. The physical exercises will form a part of the regular curriculum, being arranged for each pupil by measurement and tests of strength, and required as much as attendance at recitations...
...support, These figures, which might be tediously multiplied, give rise to the suspicion that many of our colleges are, in fact, little better than academies, and are colleges only in name, and this suspicion is rather confirmed by the disproportionate number of scholars in the preparatory departments in the regular college course...