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...Great and unnecessary expense is incurred. - (a) Rep't Grad. Treas. shows expense here $34,000 in 1890-91. - (b) Club houses, etc., are out of proportion to existing needs...
...liberal education: Pres. Eliot in Cent. Mag. June, 1884, p. 203 - (b). To secondary schools, by fitting poor teachers: Wm. C. Collar in Boston Journal, April 4, 1891. - (c). To Harvard's influence for it reverses her policy of raising the standard, pursued for the last thirty years: Minority Rep...
...chief advantages of the three years plan are secured by the present system. - (a). The number of men graduating in three years is constantly increasing: Min. Rep. p. 12. - (b). Professional work may be anticipated: Ibid...
...experience of England is against a three years course, rather than in favor - (a). At Oxford by far the largest number of men graduate in four years: Min. Rep. p. 21. - (b). At Cambridge, where the course is limited by statute to three years, most men anticipate a year's work before entrance: Ibid. - (c). The English Universities have practically abandoned what is proposed to us as an experiment...
...late age at which Harvard graduates enter professional life lies in better methods in lower schools: Prof. D. Collin Wells in Andover Rev Jan. 1892. - (a). Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...