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...exercise their option in the matter, and that those under that age should be governed by the option of their parents. The decision is very curious when taken in connection with the yearly extension which is given to the elective system in the choice of studies. One would think that there was nothing in a young man's life on which he himself or his parents should be so competent to form an opinion as the time and place at which be should pray to Almighty God, and that there was no duty to which it was more absurd...
...member of the committee, is simply that a favorable opportunity for presenting the plan has not yet offered itself. Before President Eliot went away from Cambridge, the faculty was busy with other matters; after the President's departure, consideration of the plan had necessarily to be postponed. We think this explanation of the delay is a satisfactory one. It is to the interest of all parties to have the plan most carefully considered by the faculty. Everyone,- the students, most of all,- can afford to wait in patience, rather than have the matter slighted, or hurriedly disposed...
Professor Sumner of Yale, says as follows of the change for admission to Harvard:- "I have examined it with great care and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education. Every man can suit himself as to his course of studies. The greatest change is in the possibility of avoiding Latin and Greek through the combinations which have been provided for. I see Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is pressing a movement to substitute English for Latin as the official language of the college. This fact is worthy...
...Shaler requests all men who think of doing geological work during the summer, to meet him at the next Seminar on Thursday, the 2nd April...
...bring the total to $6745. This last item of overdue bills is an extraordinary one to be sure, but must be met, unless we are to keep always in debt, a state of things which no one would desire to see. The average for Yale crews is, we still think, less than ours. We have learned from a careful examination that the figures given for the Yale crew were also too large, and their report seemed to indicate that there were double entries, which would make Yale's expenses for 1883 84, somewhere near those of the Harvard crew, perhaps...