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...lightning advances under Eliot left many patches of ground to be filled by his successors, Lowell and Conant. The elective system, allowing undergraduates to select any courses they wanted from a rapidly burgeoning catalogue, had made education infinitely more exciting, but it also opened doors to dilletantism. Some students filled their whole programs with relatively easy survey courses from many fields. The "gentleman's C" was the rage. Others, more earnest, took all their courses in the same field...
...representatives of Harvard, the students will mingle with a select crowd of nearly 200. The other guests have been selected from the faculties of the various departments...
...week. The teachers have discovered that starting this half year earlier greatly speeds the social development of the child. Rumor has it that just the other day a group of male two and a-half year olds were huddled in the corner, pencils and paper in hand, trying to select Miss Radcliffe...
...underpaid ($185 a year for men, $65 for women), unqualified teachers using helter-skelter teaching methods; the well-to-do sent their children to private schools. This infuriated Mann, who believed that mass education was the key to successful self-government. "We need general intelligence and integrity," he cried. "Select schools for select children should be discarded...
Incoming freshmen would select their survey courses only after taking a battery of tests and examinations to determine aptitude and general ability...