Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell's plans for the modification of the elective system are embodied in the new Faculty rules for the choice of studies. Such restrictions as have been imposed will make but little interference with the choice of the average student. They are safeguards to prevent the abuses to which unchecked freedom in the selection of courses has given rise, rather than hard and fast rules making a prescribed curriculum. Within the limits set by the new rules there will be abundant room for election, but there will be less chance for misguided experimentation...