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Still, as I have said, the failure is but partial. I believe that a system of self-government by the students can be formed which will be popular, effective and broad enough in its scope to escape the odium which has become attached to our form...
...does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive...
...generally felt that the failure of the Harvard Register was a detriment to the university. That enterprise started out with perhaps too broad a scope and with hopes too brilliant. But then it can be answered that only a magazine of so high a character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time...
...faculty any special requests." There are numerous objections - such as the greater proportion of students in our case - to the adoption of such a plan at Harvard. Another plan suggested has been either that some member of the faculty deliver lectures to undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made...
...freshman work is excessively subdivided as to topics; and that greater confusion and distraction of mind does not result among the men is really a matter for wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated...