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President Eliot is announced as a contributor to the second number of the new Philadelphia weekly, "Our Continent" - Subject, "The Elective system in Education...
...serious faults may be found in the system of instruction in French at Harvard. In the first instance, the student is obliged to commit to memory an excessive amount of selections that are neither profitable nor interesting. In every French course we find some such task set, the merit of which is extremely dubious. The reason given is that by these means a knowledge of the language may be ingrained in the memory and the mind thus made more retentive of the forms of good style. But if this is the end desired, why not choose the selections with...
...Yale News proposes that to vary the monotony of the present system of study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would...
...certainly an innovation that gives great promise for the future in broadening the aims and increasing the opportunities of the college. Its direct results, of course, are not made apparent by examinations as in all other courses; but this is hardly to be called a drawback to the system. It may perhaps come to pass that this innocent experiment shall result in showing the authorities that it is possible for men to acquire useful knowledge in certain subjects by such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students...
...doing the English" it is to be hoped that all tendency to follow the examples of Oxford and Cambridge, by university systems, will be resisted at Harvard. Those are not the examples for a progressive American university to follow. The German university system, with its academic freedom - freedom on the part of the instructors to teach how and as they please; freedom on the part of the students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very...