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...Such a system as the new one proposed for admission requirements," says an exchange, "would let a man graduate at Harvard without ever parsing mensa or looking at a Greek alphabet; a consummation that President Eliot is known to have long devoutly wished...
...behind West Point. But the heiniousness of teaching a scientific subject without the use of any specified text-book we fear will not be fully appreciated by the leading educators and teachers of the land. The careless, off-hand way in which these military gentlemen wave aside the elective system as admittedly inferior and second-rate, is quite refreshing. Harvard surely must blush for her shortcomings...
...cyclone, accompanied by rain, lightning and hail, struck Patterson, N. J., about five o'clock last evening. Several mills were unroofed, trees uprooted and the telephone system completely demoralized...
...Francis A. Walker delivered his second lecture on "Land Tenure" in Sever 11, last evening. The lecture consisted of an examination of the common criticisms against the established system of tenure of land, and was mainly a refutation of the theories of Messrs. H. C. Carey, Bastrat and Bouillet. The trouble with Mr. Carey, Gen. Walker said, was that in attempting to refute Ricardo's law, he confused this law with the law of populations; his criticisms were, in fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land...
...freely as it is open to the strictly classical student under the present regime. It is easy to see what the adoption of this innovation by the college would mean. It would mean that the college is following out to its legitimate results the principles of the elective system; that it is thoroughly permeated by the new ideas of the century in the direction of liberality and freedom of studies; and that in this direction as in all others it is trying to keep the leading position already held by it among American colleges. That the changes proposed will meet...