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...into any special branch of athletics will not be out of place at this early date in the college year. Probably most men who enter Harvard have never had such opportunities for general physical development and muscular training as are now furnished by the new gymnasium, with its splendid system of physical examinations and careful supervision, and the work in the gymnasium now naturally supplements the mental training received in the collegiate department. The four years which a man gives to a college course offer opportunities for bringing his body into a healthy and muscular condition which...
...provisional list of commencement parts is larger this year than last, and there has been a steady increase in the number of men gaining this distinction ever since the adoption of the election system. Unless the rules are changed, we may in time expect to have the whole of each senior class on the list...
...debate. Our four great universities, with their many departments and multifarious courses of study, offer a field where each one can settle for himself the pros and cons of the Adams controversy and lay out his course accordingly. To Harvard, Mr. Adams' alma mater, with its complicated elective system, his strictures are least of all applicable today...
...corporation called attention to the fact "that the multiplication of professorships, the development of the elective system, and the increase of laboratories and collections within twelve years, have necessitated the reorganization and development of instruction by subjects or departments. Each department of instruction, as for example, the department of classical philology, history, philosophy, chemistry, physics or natural history, is a unit which has a structure and growth of its own. Each has several teachers whose various courses of instruction should be arranged in a just order, and each has collections and apparatus which should be brought together, used harmoniously...
...conditions are vitally different from those of Germany, and because it has proved a success in the one is no reason why it should in the other. For instance in France direct personal suffrage involved the country in a ruinous revolution. In England no one claims that by a system of limited suffrage the political freedom of the people is in any degree curtailed. Moreover in Germany no salaries are paid the members of the Reichstag, which is the body directly representative of the interests of the common people. This is, of course, conducive to a purity of politics which...