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...many objections to the elective system has been that the student often choose a course under a missapprehension, and after it is too late finds that the course is not what he wanted. When a man can take but a limited number of the courses offered by the college, it is very important that he should choose the courses for which be is best suited, and in which he is most interested. The bare title of each course as it appears in the elective pamphlet gives him but little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under...
...culture for the press. As to writing plays, he thinks that every attorney's clerk, certainly every Harvard or Cambridge graduate, has at least a brace of plays. But no one will produce them. Few will read them. Yet, so far from being dull or worthless, they are often great. But they are fashioned after the Greek, or after Shakespeare, and out of date...
...free as to where and how to pursue her studies, whether in some school, private or public, or at home, or under the auspices and direction of any association interested in her welfare and advancement and providing her with the means of education; that examinations should be held as often as may be necessary, such examinations to be conducted by officers of the college or their duly appointed representatives, and to be in writing; that at the end of her fourth year or of the completion of any of her prescribed courses, the student should receive a certificate stating...
...both the quantity and the quality of the work show the advantages of harmony and enthusiasm. There are no laggards to hold back the rest, while the very men whose lack of comprehension of a subject would under the required system, tend to laziness and failure are often enthusiastic and successful students in the department where their talents take them. Another great advantage is that useless courses or incompetent instructors are left in solitary state. In this way the instruction of the college regulates itself. A failure which might only be suspected under the required system becomes glaringly evident under...
...elective system is often attacked, and attacked very severely, but never by those who have had practical experience of its workings. It is only a dozen years since, with great doubts as to the results of their action, a bare majority of the Harvard faculty voted to make the studies of upper classmen elective; it is only three years since they voted to make attendance on recitations voluntary; yet I doubt if ten members of that faculty could be found today who would advocate the repeal of either of those measures. It is because they have seen its fruits that...