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After Dr. McCosh had read to the students, in his library on Saturday evening, the paper with which he had previously met President Eliot before the 19th Century club, in New York, Prof. Duffield quietly remarked that there was "No doubt about the issue of this inter-collegiate championship." The press of the country seem to be of the same opinion...
...Departure in College Education" is the title of a pamphlet from the press of Scribner's Sons, New York, containing the reply of President McCosh to the views advanced by President Eliot at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. The paper is ably written, and will, at a later date, be briefly reviewed in these columns...
...have not met such young men among the undergraduates of any college, nor do I expect to meet them. If experienced men who devote a lifetime to the study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen, without any knowledge whatsover of the nature and advantage of studies between which he is told to choose, make anything like a selection...
...this matter of elective studies I stand midway between the two extremes as represented by Dr. McCosh and President Eliot. I cannot indorse the elective system as President Eliot expounds and defends it, for his position seems to me open to many of the objections which Dr. McCosh urged at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. For instance, it is true that under a system of complete election, a student may get a degree for the study of music, the French drama similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would...
Speaking of the Eliot-McCosh debate, "there does not seem to be much doubt as to who won the last inter-collegiate championship."- (Princetonian...