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...Science, is to be published in Cambridge by Moses King, '81, under the auspices of a stock company with abundant capital, of which A. Graham Bell, the distinguished physicist, is president. Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, the president of the Boston Society of Natural History, and well known as a specialist in entomology, has resigned his position as assistant librarian of Harvard University to take editorial charge of the paper. Its corps of contributors includes the names of almost all of Harvard's professors in the department of science, besides all the prominent scientific specialists at other colleges and throughout...
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...four-years' course without having any knowledge, even in a general way, of many branches of learning with which every one ought to be conversant. The reason seems to be that most of the electives are too technical, and deal too much with details to offer attractions to the specialist in some other course. To remedy this, a few general courses, which should aim to give only the salient features of the subject, might be introduced...
...then, while there is every opportunity for a specialist to perfect himself in his chosen work, there is undoubtedly a scarcity of electives to meet the requirements of those who do not wish to pursue a subject in detail, but cannot afford to remain entirely ignorant of its important features...
There may be a difference of opinion as to whether a specialist "ought to complain" if, under the present system, he gets no credit in his specialty because he takes fifteen and not eighteen hours of work; but probably no one will deny that the new system does him far greater justice...