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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Most of the electives (including all that are "arranged in a sequence of progression") give a full years' work to those who take them. It is only in exceptional courses that the reform is needed, for instance in Greek 3 and in French 4. These courses may be taken in three successive years. Certainly a student taking such a course a third time need devote no more than half as much work to it as is necessary from a sophomore; then it ought not to count more than a half course...
...true importance of such higher centralized institutions which shall turn the tendency of endowments towards them. Thus it is that all these institutions like Harvard and Columbia depend for their enlargement almost exclusively upon a certain clientele, composed generally of their own graduates, who above all, appreciate the need and usefulness of such gifts. But such a fact too much indicates how slight a hold the universities have upon the class of other than college graduates. The idea of university education is popular; the application of it halts...
...openly acknowledged that two half-courses were far more than an equivalent to one full course, and yet in reality they were held to be equal, and could be substituted for each other. Naturally such a state of things proved most unsatisfactory, and some change was felt to be needed. Then the present system, by which a half course became a three hour course for half a year, was tried in some subjects, and this new method has been found to be entirely adequate to fulfill all the needs of such a course. It has been found that these...
...required of all members of the two lower classes. Undoubtedly some freshmen and sophomores will grumble at this and regard it as an infringement of their 'natural rights.' But a little reflection ought to convince them that this is the only manner in which those who are most in need of it will receive the benefit of physical exercise. So long as gymnasium practice is voluntary, a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will do most of the work in the gymnasium for the entire university, while those students...
Rapid transit is fast coming to Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower...