Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been adopted which was made necessary at that university by circumstances having no parallel at Cornell. The marked feature of the Harvard plan is the elective system which permits a student from...