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Freshman Chemistry Seminar by a graduate of special experience, Monday, February 8, at 7.30 p.m. Admission, $1.00. Send names before Saturday, 1 p.m. Also, private instruction in Chemistry courses and in Mathematics D, A, E, and Physics B. Address 4 Grays Hall...
...article that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special study, and is peculiarly an elective institution. Study at a university is usually subsequent to study at colleges...
Freshman Chemistry Seminar by a graduate of special experience, Monday, February 8, at 7.30 p.m. Admission, $1.00. Send names before Saturday, 1 p.m. Also, private instruction in Chemistry courses and in Mathematics D, A, E, and Physics B. Address 4 Grays Hall...
...once a month, or less often, at the option of the instructor, their length varying, of course, inversely with the number required. The subjects could easily be made so comprehensive as to necessitate a fair knowledge of the ground covered by the course, and even if they were only special topics, the student would be so keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn all that was said, involuntarily as it were. These theses would, of course, be marked excellent, good, bad, etc., and not by percentages; thus doing away...
...examinations required, and without exaggeration it may be said that for these the previous preparation and the papers themselves are no more difficult than similar work for Harvard. At the remaining colleges all that is needed is a certificate from an instructor, somewhat similar to that required from our special students...