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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...third have been taken from the College electives, and the rest are from that mysterious region vaguely described as "special instruction from professors and other competent persons." To us, who have not been admitted behind the scenes, the sudden organization of this department has given much surprise, but also much pleasure. We look in vain for a course in Chinese and for some other desired courses; but an excellent beginning has been made, and criticism at this stage would be unjust. For the present, many of the courses will be taken by undergraduates chiefly, for hardly enough graduates remain here...
...appearance of the Elective Pamphlet has been awaited with unusual curiosity on account not only of the new graduate courses, but also of many rumored changes in the College electives. These changes prove to be less numerous than was expected, and are mainly in the Department of History. Dr. Emerton has a new elective, which covers an interesting period, and ought to prove valuable; but we are sorry to see that the course in Mediaeval Institutions has been given up. It was a course that could ill be spared, and our only hope is, that it may prove...
...would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat us are usually composed of men who devote their entire time to base-ball, and, as an extra stimulus for good play, receive salaries in proportion to the value of their services...
What reason is there for making such a restriction upon a valuable elective? Seniors may be better fitted for it than Juniors; but, also, Graduates are better fitted than Seniors, and the elective might be placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...
...also notice that the author uses inflexissimus in the sense of inflexible, whereas it means just the opposite...