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PRESIDENT PORTER of Yale, in his work on American Colleges, discusses at some length the "system of elective studies as now carried out at Harvard," and compares this system and its results to the old method of prescribed studies throughout the four years' course at Yale. It is hardly necessary to say that President Porter is strongly opposed to the elective system, and gives many strong arguments in favor of the old-timed course of four years of prescribed work in Mathematics, Classics, and Philosophy...
...President's statements, "that in such a system students will neglect the more difficult subjects and select studies requiring less mental application, which are for this reason of less value in discipline," appeared to be contrary to our experience at Harvard, and investigation has shown this to be true...
...branch undoubtedly spend their time profitably; while at Yale many of the students taking the prescribed work shirk a distasteful course of study. The table also shows that young students do generally select their electives wisely, and that our Faculty are perfectly justified in encouraging President Eliot's Elective System...
...magnanimous to our fallen foes. Xerxes would never hear any good of the Athenians; but the Black Prince waited upon King John at table. And I, if I had been victorious in my last encounter with my old enemies, might now play the Black Prince to the Examination System's King John. As it is - but who likes to sing of defeat...
What a jumble of much fancy, more fiction, and little truth! What a parade of illogical thoughts! What a procession of ill-constructed sentences! And what shall one say of the system that produces such a result? what of the tree that bears such fruit? Does it not deserve to be cast down and thrown into the fire...