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...will be kept intact; if he may not, it will be considerably weakened. For the object of the recent changes in the assignment of Yard rooms is to make the Yard the centre of undergraduate life, and to make certain dormitories the centre of Senior life. To exclude the three-year man from the Yard is, therefore, to say to him, "You are not an undergraduate. You are not a Senior." What then, will this continuance of social connection with his class mean? What advantages will that catchy little "as of" secure to him? The question is rather a perplexing...
...three years' plan has the tremendous advantage of being sanctioned and advocated by President Eliot, whose word is deservedly regarded as authoritative in matters pertaining to education. Nevertheless, the President would undoubtedly welcome any honest expression of opposition to his opinion. That such opposition exists in the minds of a number of those undergraduates who have at all considered the matter, seems to me certain. It should not be forgotten that when the President says that competent men ought to attain the bachelor's degree in three years, most parents (who have a disinclination to consider their sons incompetent) will...
...error on which the three-year idea is based seems to be that the degree of Bachelor of Arts simply denotes that its holder has done the work of seventeen courses. If that were true, the three-year plan would have no opponents. What the degree has hitherto meant, however, is that its holder, if he is a "competent" man, has lived for four years an academic life, in which he has pursued liberal studies with some success, in which he has had an opportunity to partake in one or more of the College activities, and in which...
What will the "competent" man, who has fallen before the strong temptation of the three-year idea, attain? As a Freshman, he will have to take six courses; as a Sophomore, six; as a so called Senior, five. Academic regulations being unfortunately unable to provide more than twenty-four hours in each day, how will he use his time? If the amount of work hitherto required in the courses is not to be lessened, your "competent" man must do one of two things: either he must do College work of a lower grade, or, what perhaps would be worse...
...lowered. But if scholarship is not to be cheapened, something else is going to suffer. The inestimable educative value--using educative in its noblest sense,--of a Senior year with four courses and plenty of time for those other occupations which bring maturity of mind and breadth of culture, will be exchanged for a year of hard, professional, specialized study in Law, Medical, or Graduate School, where the unfortunate three-year graduate may not even have time enough to regret that he has neglected a great opportunity in pursuing that Three Year Idea which seems to be an academic incarnation...