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...Freshmen this "system" has had the most disastrous effects. In the other departments each new instructor finds the traditional system as a skeleton for which the flesh and blood is supplied from both his experience and the spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments...
...present Freshman instructors, after three years of faithful work, have at last succeeded in establishing some system, in face of all the above-mentioned difficulties. The proposed innovation will break up what good influence they have so far exerted...
...shall endeavor to make the remaining two-thirds readable by securing the advance sheets of the Crimson's serials. If this last proves impracticable, the space might be filled up by attacks on the Crimson and by the effusions of Freshman contributors. We are sure that if this system were adopted, our esteemed cotemporaries would charm their readers by the vigor it not the elegance of their style and contents...
...another column will be found an article in relation to the proposed change in the method of instruction in Freshman German. If, as the writer states, there is a serious disagreement in the German department regarding the proper system to be pursued, it is to be regretted; but still we cannot ignore the fact that great advantage is gained by a Freshman section from instruction by a professor once a week. Still the supporters of the measure, in citing the precedent of a similar plan successfully adopted in Latin and Greek, seem to have called to their aid an example...
...Harvard, notwithstanding the great advantages which the large number of students and our system of study give in pursuing outside work, we undoubtedly fall below that standard of excellence in our athletic and social affairs that would naturally be expected of us. This failing, in both branches, is due in great measure to that system which throws upon a few prominent men the management of the many different interests. But more important than that even, in the case of some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History...