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...education, and the university regained its lost place slowly. Last year, esteemed a comparatively prosperous one, 330 students were enrolled, and this number is not likely to be hotably increased. It is an interesting fact that the University of Virginia must be regarded as the mother of the elective system in this country. From its foundation the students have been allowed entire freedom of choice in their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term...
This institution, which is situated in the same town as Amherst College, is known as the Agricultural college. President Greenough, indorsed by the menders of the faculty has inaugurated a new system of study which ought to prove of great benefit to a large class of young men and have an important bearing on the higher education of the times. In addition to the previous instruction in farming and hortieulture, he proposes to furnish a full four years course in the natural sciences, modern languages and literature, together with philosophy, economy and history. As our ordinary colleges are the supplements...
...close of every examination time one cannot help a feeling of dissatisfaction with the process by which the work a man may have done or left undone during the term is determined. It cannot but be unsatisfactory in almost every way. But it is particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their...
...neglect the classics. All he asked was that science and modern languages should have their fair share of time and attention, or, as has been well observed at their opening meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely made it a condition...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -The manifest injustice of the hour examination system appears in the recent announcement of two for the same date, Jan. 7th. The time necessary for preparation for the final examinations is not only thus seriously encroached upon, but those men who have both courses must devote a portion of the already pitiably short Christmas recess to preparation for this needless aggravation-the strongest modern argument against conservation of energy-where an immense amount of labor is expended with no adequate results-the hour examination. It is due to the respective professors to state that they are both...