Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This statement, when taken in connection with the late action of the faculty, makes clear beyond doubt what is intended by such action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...additional privileges were allowed. President Sparks was a determined opponent of the elective system, and energetically opposed it. Curtailments in the choice of elective courses followed. Shortly after, a reaction set in, and in 1866 the advance toward free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated in the action of the faculty which has recently been taken. The college has steadily grown with the enlargement of the curriculum, and each year has shown a steady rise in the scholarship of the students, until last year 77 per cent. of the freshman class received 50 per cent. or over for their...
...significance of this action by the students is better understood when it is remembered that there are no secret societies or visible bonds to unite the alumni to the college. This committee is designed to supply in part this lack." -N. Y. Eve. Post...
...this connection it must be stated that no accurate report of the faculty's proceedings is to be found in our columns this morning for the simple reason that the faculty declined, point blank, to give the slightest information relative to their action. Though four different members of the faculty were interviewed by representatives of the CRIMSON, yet, in each instance, the only information elicited was to the effect that they had, as yet, nothing to say about the newly adopted regulations. Just why this mysterious state of affairs should exist, it is difficult to understand, inasmuch as the decision...
...meeting of the faculty, last evening, the revised regulations, of which more or less inaccurate outlines have appeared in the daily press, were finally adopted. By this action of the faculty, the new system of admission to the college becomes a law, inasmuch as the corporation and overseers have no authority to revoke such action...