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...decide to leave the course, we are put to much trouble to do so, especially when we have made our plan of study for the remaining years. Of course, in the beginning, we can go to see the different professors that have charge of all the courses which we think of selecting for three years' work, and get a description of them; but the description is apt to be meagre, and our ideas confused from not wishing to bother the professors for a second and third account. Aside from this, it is a great nuisance to go to a professor...
...been computed that Harvard College wastes three hundred hours daily in the horse-cars; think of the time that will be saved...
...early to think of the list of electives for next year, and to call the attention of those who are to get out the pamphlet to several courses which might be added, that would prove beneficial to a number of students. There is a tendency here for men to devote most of their time to specialties, and they finish a four-years' course without having any knowledge, even in a general way, of many branches of learning with which every one ought to be conversant. The reason seems to be that most of the electives are too technical, and deal...
...these electives this year. There is a similar but greater need of such a course in Chemistry. The twenty lectures given in the Freshman year are so interesting that many would gladly pursue the subject further. Chemistry 1 is justly a popular course, but those who take it think that enough might be left out to make it count only two hours, and yet attain the same result. It seems unnecessary to the general student to follow every element into all its combinations when only a few will be found of any practical use. In Physics, also, there is room...
...against the feeling, "We don't care for abroad," which so often finds expression in America. At Oxford, the debates of the Union do much to keep alive an intelligent interest in matters that every gentleman must, sooner or later, be acquainted with. There, it is "the thing" to think and to talk about them, and to take part in the Union debates. Here, it is not; and this lies at the root of the matter. Until men who are prominent in college take the lead, as once they did, in giving a reasonable amount of attention to matters...