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This statement, when taken in connection with the late action of the faculty, makes clear beyond doubt what is intended by such action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...election had greatly improved the scholarship of the students, and additional privileges were allowed. President Sparks was a determined opponent of the elective system, and energetically opposed it. Curtailments in the choice of elective courses followed. Shortly after, a reaction set in, and in 1866 the advance toward free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated in the action of the faculty which has recently been taken. The college has steadily grown with the enlargement of the curriculum, and each year has shown a steady rise in the scholarship of the students, until last year 77 per cent...
...Society. This sub-section will then have a curator, chairman, and secretary of its own. Mr. Garrison was elected chairman by a unanimous vote, but it was resolved to defer the election of other officers till the next meeting. It was decided that members should be free to keep what specimens they desired for their private collections, but the society will also form a collection which will be added to that of the N. H. Society. The meeting was successful in every way, starting with sixteen, possibly eighteen, members. Of these...
...shows that the club is still a living organization, promoting the study of Philosophy at Harvard. During the past five months, the club has not been brought prominently before the notice of the college, although it has been in a flourishing condition. The object of the club is the free discussion of philosophical problems, and for this reason the number of members is necessarily rather small. The consequence is that, although the fortnightly meetings are well attended, are highly interesting to the members themselves, the students at large hear very little about the club, except in connection with its public...
...looking over the list of lectures to be given this year to students of the university, we regret to see that no arrangements have been made by the powers that be for lectures in Political Economy, except for those on Free Trade and Protection. Now, last year, students taking Political Economy, and especially members of the elementary course, Political Economy 1, derived great pleasure and profit from the lectures given under the auspices of the Finance Club. The lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson on the subject, "What makes the Rate of Wages," and that by Mr. Gamaliel Bradford, on "Political...