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REPORT OF THE CLASS OF 1860. New York : 1880. Printed for the use of the class. Francis M. Weld, Esq., the Class Secretary of '60, has got out the most interesting Class Report of any that we have yet seen. It comprises a volume of 246 pages, neatly bound in...
WE learn, on the best authority, that a race with Columbia, which has been talked of in several papers, is by no means a fixed affair. The rumor was premature, for nothing has yet been done to fix a race.
There are several other points of interest bearing upon this whole matter in the Report, which is a most gratifying indication of the progress of a broad and liberal spirit on the part of the authorities.
The President carefully reviews the growth of the elective system for the last ten years, and gives several reasons - now familiar to most of us - to show that this form of instruction is more suitable than that by recitation.
"The first plan, which was based upon several existing French systems, provided annuities by means of compulsory annual reserves from salaries, supplemented by equal annual appropriations from the treasury of the University, and accumulated for terms of years, which would ordinarily have been long; the second was based upon the...