Word: elects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot speak too warmly of the earnest, manly, and studious spirit which has pervaded in the University in recent years. I believe that the professors in the literary department are agreed in the opinion that the introduction of the elective system into the last two or two and a half years of the collegiate courses has contributed much to this result. There has been in years past much undiscriminating criticism by some ultra-conservative college officers in the East of any attempt at modifying the iron-clad curriculum. But it is noteworthy that the very colleges which have been...
...answered successfully by slurs upon the university at Cambridge. This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they undertook to meddle with the internal affairs of the sister university. Moreover, Harvard has already what the most of these critics seek for Yale, an adequate representation of the alumni...
...Greek with the alternative of Mathematics or History. In Latin, besides composition there are nine authors to be read, among them Livy, Horace, Tacitus, Cicero and Juvenal. In Greek there are six authors, Lysias, Homer, Sophocles, and others. Supposing he desires the modern studies, then for Science he can elect course III, comprising Chemistry, Biology, and either Latin, Mathematics, or Italian. For a more literary course, he can take course IV which includes History, Political Science, and either Mathematics, a laboratory study, Spanish or Italian. Thus one can see the courses are well arranged and evenly balanced...
...Governor elect Foraker has replied to the Cornell students, thanking them for congratulations...
...Governor-elect Foraker is a graduate of Cornell...