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...case for the negative. The difference between a restricted elective system and the free elective system, he said, is best illustrated by the difference between restrained liberty and unrestrained liberty. We can distinctly trace the origin of the free elective system of Harvard to the German universities. Conditions in American colleges, however, are quite different from those abroad, and, even admitting the very questionable success of this system at Harvard, it does not necessarily follow that the system would prove successful in other colleges and universities throughout the country. Although the system may be theoretically sound, it has never been...
...defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...free elective system is not merely an evolution, as the affirmative will maintain; it is a revolution. And against it stands the weight of opinion held by the majority of eminent educators of the day. The tendency of American colleges, beginning with the University of Indiana in 1888, and ending with Princeton in 1905, has been away from the free elective system. There is no demand or necessity for the system, which would indeed, owing to the varying conditions existing in our colleges, prove in many cases impracticable and unsatisfactory...
...substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars...
Chesbro, who has been coaching the pitchers for the past month, leaves today for Nashville to join the New York American League team on its southern trip...