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COLUMBIA Class Races take place on the 14th of this month...
THERE is a proposition at present before the Faculty which, harmless as it seems, will be attended by serious consequences, if it is carried out. It is proposed that one of the assistant professors in German take, during the next year, for one hour a week, the entire Freshman class under his charge, the class being divided for this purpose into only six sections, whereas heretofore it was divided into eight. The argument is made that the professors of Latin and Greek have tried a similar experiment, and have found it successful. As the German department has at present...
...result of this is that our German courses present a sort of climax upside down. In other departments, as it is well known, the student is supposed - in theory at least - to take the course marked (1) before he takes the course marked (2), &c. Not so in German. On leaving the Freshman class the student might as well begin with Course 8 at once, for but little preparation for such an advanced course is to be got from the lower courses, owing to the strong sense of individuality which pervades the several members of the German department; each...
...strongest argument against the proposed change is the fact that all the members of the German department oppose it, with the exception of the gentleman that is to take the Freshmen next year. The Freshman instructors, particularly, the writer understands, have protested against it, and wish it understood that they would not hold themselves responsible for any failures resulting from...
...order to do justice to the author of the ode "To Fancy," I will take my last quotation from a very pretty poem of his entitled "Indian Summer...