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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every year the elective pamphlet comes out the college looks with interest to discover the unfailing signs of growth and progress in the university. This year is no exception, and the choice of study which Harvard offers for 1892-93 has in it unmistakable signs of advance. After a college has worked out such a complicated and liberal system of electives as Harvard has been building up, it is natural to expect that after those years of construction the university would settle down, content to run along for some time to come on the lines which it has with such...
Following the policy pursued in recent years the greater part of the progress of the university is in the direction of the graduate school, and the increased opportunities offered are those of graduate work and special research. There are many reasons for this. The undergraduate department is more in a position which the economists might call "the stationary state;" the system of undergraduate education has been worked out until there is less left to be done than in the higher departments of study. In the graduate school there is more room for progress. Then again it is the avowed policy...
...They are based on the number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms of fact to realms of thought...
...accession of President Eliot in 1869, the stamp of the old regime was plainly to be seen, and the progress since that time is almost revolutional. Greek and Latin then had one-fourth the time; now less than one-tenth, and mathematics have been reduced to a considerably smaller figure still. The modern languages are now twice as much studied as the ancient, while natural science recieves four times as much attention as mathematics...
...Little progress in the chess match has been made the last two weeks, but an interesting correspondence between the two colleges has taken place...