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While restrictions on the selection of courses will affect only a part of the undergraduates and that in but a limited degree, the enforced residence together of all men in their first year will leave its impression on every student who enters the College. To break down the barriers between preparatory school groups, to minimize the natural distinctions which differences of geographical origin and of wealth have set up--in a word to encourage class coherence and so to produce democratic men--will be the natural results of this system...
...School; it is a hospital. The work of teaching dentistry except for the clinic instruction, is done mainly in the building of the Medical School at its side. The work done in the Medical School is mainly the treatment of patients in the hospital, and this is the first of many hospital buildings which we hope to see gathered around the Medical School. And it has been shown by the dentists that they can maintain and control the hospital to the entire satisfaction of their patients and the public...
...first step assuring the modifications of the elective system which have been under discussion for some time, was taken yesterday when the Governing Boards of the University supported President Lowell by approving his plans. The changes, which are not radical, but follow along the lines laid down in the inaugural address, are embodied in the paragraphs below, officially announced for the first time...
...That at the end of his first year in College each student be required to present to his adviser a plan of study for the remainder of his College course; and that the plan must conform to the general principles laid down by the committee, unless the committee is satisfied that the student is earnest and has sufficient grounds for departing from those principles...
This will be the first of the series of six lectures on professions, which have been arranged by the Governing Board of the Union this year in pursuance of the original scheme so successfully introduced last year for the first time, namely, to secure men prominent in the principal professions to set forth to the undergraduates the nature and requirements of their respective professions. President Lowell will be present in order to introduce President Garfield...