Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amount of money disbursed by the college in the payment of salaries and the general expenses immediately connected with the students, was about $200,000 during the year 1884-85, while the amount received from term-bills was only a little over $185,000. Formerly mortgages were an excellent form of investment for the university, but at present reliable mortgages yield scarcely 4 per cent. A considerable portion of the college funds in invested in railroad bonds. A small amount is invested in manufacturing stocks, but this is not so good a form of investment, as it yields a variable...
...hours a week. The only absolute prescription is, in the freshman year, rhetoric and English composition, German or French, the other being required for admission, and attendance once a week upon lectures in chemistry and physics, and in the remainder of the college course English composition in the form of "themes" and "forensics" only. In addition to these prescribed exercises each freshman must take three full courses of study, and each student of the other classes four. Thus out of the 220 courses offered, the student may do his whole four years' work in about twenty, and cannot profitably extend...
Aside from the restrictions laid down, the general advice is given to students "to make their choice with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from the first to last may form a rationally connected whole." This is excellent advice, but it is to be feared that not all students are in a state of mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students...
...wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge of the lines of study best for them, or to form opinions in which they feel confident, and advice directed by the best intentions is not always sound. Under so liberal a system of elective studies as that which has been adopted at Harvard one of the greatest needs must be the development and perfection of some systematic method of guiding...
After a much greater delay than usual on account of the affairs attendant upon the Celebration, the University catalogue for 1886 has at last appeared and is on sale to-day. It is much the same in form as last year, and it continues the new crimson covers. The principal change to note is that in the requirements for admission. The new system, the details of which have been described in our columns before, is inaugurated this year. The old prescribed and elective subjects are replaced by elementary and advanced subjects. The elementary studies are not supposed to be equivalent...