Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annual Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration...
With all due respect to our sister college, we would ask her representative paper to answer a few questions regarding a course at Harvard. What college is it that stands head and shoulders above all other New England colleges in matters of requirements for admission? Why is it that a certificate from the larger preparatory schools will admit without examination to nearly every New England college with the exception of Harvard? Again, why is it that a year of extra study is necessary for admission to Harvard beyond what is required at other colleges? Who can "enroll his name upon...
...quite possibly in some courses it would be well to offer an alternative. We might be allowed either to answer a given set of questions, or to write on some topic covering a large part of the work. Such a plan as Professor Palmer's is, we hope, the small end of the wedge which may split to pieces our present examination and marking system...
...come back to the main question again whether Harvard was over hasty, we cannot well give an unqualified answer. Yes, if we take the present state of educational matters into consideration; no, if we look ahead to the great change which is to be effected. At present there is a great gap between school and university which the young man has to jump over as best he can. His academical training ceases long before it is nearly sufficient; he is left to make shift for himself in a sea of different studies, and there is no denying that the average...
...What answer can the overseers make to save from ridicule their boasted system of compulsory morality...