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...marks were given out yesterday in English 1 and 2. Prof. Child took occasion to explain and defend his system of marking...
...recent exchange serious objection was made in a lengthy editorial to Harvard's elective system, on the ground that studies like philosophy, etc., were not prescribed, and that a student was free to elect any subject, whether it was adapted to his wants or entirely unsuited for him, and taken merely as an easy course. The elective system no doubt presents many temptations to a student not inclined to work, but, on the other hand, opportunity is given by this system to pursue a course of study calculated to educate one for his future life, whatever...
...following extract from President Eliot's article on the elective system is of immediate and significant interest to every Harvard man. The public will doubtless receive it as an official outlining of the future policy of this university; indeed it is substantially a statement of her present policy; and if Harvard were in need of any justification of her present system, in the discussion on this subject now going on in the public press, this might serve for that purpose. President Eliot says...
...plain that by the steady expansion and improvement of the elective system, the American college is to be gradually converted into a university of a new kind; not an English university, because it will not subordinate teaching to examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not a German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure...
Elevated railroads were discussed in the legislature yesterday, and Captain Meigs explained his system...