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...those who are particularly interested in history is an absolute necessity, for no man who wishes to be well informed in that subject can be without a knowledge of European history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Large numbers of students took the course, not because it was "soft," for there are many easier courses offered us, but with a view to the profit they would get from it. Now what did the Faculty do on seeing this? One would suppose they would have formed several sections in the course, and tried to make so valuable a course eligible...
...Soft fall they, soft as breezes mild that rove...
...soft to wake a sleeping child...
...courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...
...triumph over the evils of unfair marks, but it more often suffers from them; and all the genius of a Newton could not obtain ninety per cent when an instructor never gives over seventy. The result is natural. Ambition to stand well yields to the temptation to choose "soft" though unprofitable courses...