Word: national
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That a journal of the importance and influence of the Nation should express its condemnation of the present elective system of studies is a matter of concern to all the friends of Harvard. The editor of the Nation believes that an unrestrained and perfectly free elective system is unwise, just as much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore...
...begun to take an active part in its discussion. Dr. Crosby's utterances on this and other phases of college life have recently been stirring up a lively debate on the subject. No statement of the whole question, we think, can be better than that given in the last Nation, a statement that is worthy of the most careful consideration and discussion by all college men who are interested in athletics as a constituent part of a symmetrical college training. The writer says : "The general public is, we believe, under the impression that too much time is given to college...
...glad to see that the Harvard Lampoon still survives, though the designs for the first number of the new volume are feeble enough. Cannot there be a greater variety in the "processes" by which the autograph drawings are reproduced? The pen-point is trying to the tyro. - [N. Y. Nation...
...Nation thinks that most of the students at Oxford and Cambridge who come from the United States and British Colonies are attracted thither "chiefly by the charm of college life." "Whatever charges may be brought against their teaching," it says, "the social and intellectual life of the students is no doubt far superior to that of the German universities. It is not only very easy and pleasant, in the better colleges, teachers and students meeting one another almost on equal terms, but it is very stimulating, and possibly does as much for a man's mind as the regular instruction...
...Nation, with its own peculiar irony, speaking of Butler's letter of acceptance, says: "One great source of anxiety to the Bostonians will be removed by this letter. One of their chief reasons for dreading Butler's election was the scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that...