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...month after the Eliot House list incident, Keel celebrated a victory with her fellow CASV members...
Ronald C. Chen, a law tutor in Eliot House who worked closely with her on business and law school applications, praised Schwartz’s commitment to excellence in both her academic and extracurricular involvement...
Another lesson of the preregistration debacle is to remember Harvard history, because so little now happens at Harvard for the first time. Ever since University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, first instituted that “Free Elective” system in the 1860s that allowed students choice in their class selection, professors have been complaining about students “shopping” their lectures. After several failed proposals to curb the phenomenon, a preregistration system was put in place for a few decades in the early 20th century but was finally abandoned in 1954, when...
...Harvard became more established as a leader in higher education, it became obvious that substantial changes would not come about naturally, but would have to be actively sought.University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was the first president to turn Harvard College into something resembling what it is today: his 1870 reforms established an elective system characterized by flexibility and an expansion in course offerings. Instructors were given a greater degree of autonomy in grading practices and pedagogy...
Harvard’s curriculum operated under the Eliot system for the next 40 years, but its lack of structure eventually led to disorder...