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...advantages of the elective system as deduced from both theory and practice, says the New York Times, may be briefly summarized as follows: To the man whose object is general raining, who wants an education only that he may enjoy its broadening influences, the elective system opposes no obstacle; the required system is, if efficiently carried out, equally valuable to this class, but it is not more so. But to that much larger class who want an education to train them for some special calling, or who have a special fondness for some one line of study, the elective system...
...practical workings of the elective system have developed great economical advantages which could hardly have been anticipated by theory. In a class-room where both student and instructor are studying the subject because they are thoroughly interested, their old position as natural and hereditary enemies is lost sight of, and both the quantity and the quality of the work show the advantages of harmony and enthusiasm. There are no laggards to hold back the rest, while the very men whose lack of comprehension of a subject would under the required system, tend to laziness and failure are often enthusiastic...
...frequently objected by the upholders of the old system that the student, when left to himself, will choose injudiciously, and will choose easy courses. Those who put forward these arguments as of any real weight only display thereby their own ignorance of the subject. The average age of the Harvard sophomore is something over 20 years, while he is limited in his choice, first by the rule that he must take only such courses as his previous studies qualify him to pursue, and, second, by the advice of his parents and instructors. If one who lacks only four or five...
...after all, the strongest argument in favor of the elective system is the way in which educators are being converted to its support and in which college after college is swinging into line. Almost unknown on this continent a half-score years ago, it has now obtained more or less recognition from nearly every college of repute in the land...
...view of the cause of the decline of Cornell of recent years, the association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students has been gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious press and the raising of the standard in studies - but because the university no longer represented clearly-defined ideas about which students could cluster. The character of Cornell's students had accordingly deteriorated; they were not now such...