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...interesting to note, in President Eliot's report, what have been the results of the new method of admission examinations adopted by a vote of the faculty in 1886. The members of the last entering class have had unusual advantages in their admission examinations, in that it was their privilege to choose almost any combination they wished from a scheme of examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German...
...whole, the new method of examination bids fair, to quote from the report, "to enrich and diversify school programmes; to widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...
...during this period of apparent dormancy, the overseers were getting ready a set of regulations which cannot be too severely condemned. When the overseers advise that "every undergraduate be required to report early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for necessary absences," have they forgotten the evils which flourished under the system of compulsory prayers which set a premium on all sorts of false excuses for absence? Do they suppose that the mere establishment of such a rule will insure its faithful observance...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board it is expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences. That attendance at the exercises of each course be more rigidly enforced. That the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class. That the reports of the presence and absence of students be collected daily by monitors and daily entered on the books. That no choice of studies made by a student be valid if it call for more than three...
Despite these real difficulties, however, there yet remains abundant cause for self-congratulation. The policy of the faculty in regard to athletics, as mentioned in the report, has become wiser and more lenient, and has thus added another incentive to the spirit of co-operation which already binds to a considerable degree faculty and student. It is this sort of policy, and this only, which will allow our University to exert its fullest influence...