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...standard value to that student. The author of "Our Ranking System" thus declares himself as a champion of a "broad education." Let him be this if he will, but he must not attempt to make "reforms" which shall do injustice to the specialist, nor should he forget that the various courses in the several branches of knowledge are arranged in a sequence of progression, and that a student is not expected to enter a higher course, until he has prepared for it by taking those which come before. If he should take the higher first and then the easier...
...rumored that the Advocate will soon issue a work entitled "A Primer of Suggestions for the Young," on various subjects of interest to freshmen, the following may be of some use as a supplement to the suggestions for examinations in the last issue of that paper...
...bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some four or five millions to the same college, are recent cases in point. Another remarkable instance of the same sort is the recent distribution by will of some hundreds of thousands of dollars among various smaller colleges by Mrs. Valleria Stone of Boston...
First.-Instead of valuing the various electives according to the number of hours of instruction per week, make the values proportional to the amount of work necessary on the part of the student. It would be difficult to determine this value for each elective exactly, but it would probably be very closely represented by the ratio between the average marks of the students of an elective for their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. The former would be the nearest representation of the ability and industry of the members of the elective; the latter the result...
...Correspondence University is in a prosperous and growing condition The numbers of its students are increasing and important additions have been made recently to its faculty. Pupils from all parts of the country are receiving instruction in various subjects. Texas, Nova Scotia, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York are some of the sections that furnish students. The announcement of the Correspondence University for January, 1884, is just out in a neat form...