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...Harvard Co-operative Society, and the opening of societies at Ann Arbor and Yale based on the same principles as that at Harvard, the Advertiser suggests the possibility of extending the co-operative system by establishing a business connection between the societies which may be formed at the various colleges. "In the matter of purchasing and exchanging foreign text books, such a plan would certainly be feasible, and there seems no reason why, whenever large purchases of similar kinds are to be made by the various colleges, wholesale dealers may not be induced by the benefits obtainable from large collective...
President Eliot, in his annual report, gives a very interesting summary of the various steps which the college has pursued in arriving at its present stand with regard to elective studies. Speaking of the studies which are yet required, he says, "The rhetoric, French, or German, and the elementary scientific lectures, are obviously matters which properly belong to the secondary schools; so that these few remaining requirements of the college course are of a temporary and provisional character, retained in college only until the secondary schools deal with them satisfactorily...
...looking over the report of the Dean, it is interesting to note the number of students who elected the various subjects last year. First comes History with 521 men; then Natural History with 454; Philosophy, 357; Political Economy, 324; Greek, 229; Latin, 203; English and German, 194 each; French, 189; Fine Arts, 181; Chemistry, 174. We see by this that some of the hardest courses are elected by the greatest number of men, thus showing the falsity of the often-heard statement that, under an elective system, "soft" courses are usually chosen. It is curious to note that Greek...
Yale has 69 base balls won from various clubs, collegiate and amateur...
...voices in remonstrance. We cannot feel satisfied to allow one of the most beneficial and practical applications of our classical knowledge to pass into disuse. No method is equal to that of the classical readings offered us in past years in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the various authors who are not read in the elective courses. If a student can ever derive any benefit from his power to read Latin and Greek, he ought to be able to derive that benefit from the classical readings which have hitherto given so great pleasure to us all. There is always danger...