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...this way some particular man by not conferring it, but it was getting to be a necessity, and it is not probable that there would ever come a better time than the present to make this stand. The position of the overseers, we can imagine, is that the whole system of honorary degrees, except in exceptionable cases, is based on rather questionable grounds, and particularly is it so in the case of conferring them upon any one who may happen to hold a high office. It is claimed that this is done in honor to the people who are represented...
...Brown juniors have handed the corporation a formal resolution asking that the marking system in the college be discontinued, on the ground that it encourages superficial work, discourages hard-working but not brilliant students, prompts to dishonesty and fails of necessity to indicate a student's true worth...
...courses where this treatment is preferable are comparatively few in number and could easily be rearranged so as to harmonize with the new plan. At present, as a matter of fact, the majority of our courses are divided into two partially or completely distinct portions by the present system of semi-annual examinations. Why could not this division be carried one step further and all courses be made half-yearly courses? Such an arrangement, we firmly believe, would be likely to produce far more satisfactory results than the present one. If it were possible to give a more concentrated attention...
...worst features of the elective system, it must be admitted, is the opportunity it offers the student to spread his work over too wide a field - to dabble in too many subjects at a time. A system which would require concentration upon fewer subjects, we believe, is to be desired. This result the system of "semester" courses would seem to provide...
...doctrine that intellectual power is worth more than intellectual acquisitions; that an education of all the mental faculties is better for the scholars themselves and for the community than a narrow training for a special pursuit. Acting on their idea the founders of our colleges began their educational system not with schools for special training but with schools of general culture, and the staff of instructors were not specialists but men fit to teach others the rudiments of higher learning in which they had themselves been taught...