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...attention. Here in the middle of the year's intellectual activity comes a period of nearly three weeks when all advance in every course in the department of Arts and Sciences is suspended and the time of every student is devoted, in some cases to a legitimate and helpful review of his work, in more to cramming for examinations, and in many, according to the accidental arrangement of examination days, to inaction. That there is a great waste of time here, all must agree, though there may be difference of opinion as to the exact advantage and disadvantage...
...Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard," is the subject of an article by Lloyd McKim Garrison in which he gives the origin and history of that organization numbering among its members so many famous men. Professor Marion Mills Miller '86, writes on "Debate in American Colleges," giving an historical review of his subject. Several minor articles, an interesting story, "The Professor's Holiday" and several poems together with the usual comments on university news and the athletic department, fill out the number...
...pursue is larger: Four American Universities, 26 fg.- (1) As is shown by comparison of the courses offered by Harvard with those offered by Amherst or Williams.- (b) The student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories at his command.- (2) He has the benefit of better instructors.- (c) He enjoys to a fuller extent the advantages of the elective system...
...moral influence of the university life is a better preparation for active life.- (a) The student's enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine...
Best general references: Harvard Indifference in Harvard Advocate, LX, 97 et seq. (December 19, 1895); Charles J. Bonaparte, A Serious Question in Harvard Graduates' Magazine, I, 350-352 (April, 1893); William De Witt Hyde, The Policy of the Small College, in Educational Review, II, 313 et seq. (November, 1891); George Santayana, A Glimpse of Yale, in Harvard Monthly, XV, 94 (December...