Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks for absence were first given up at lectures, then at chapel, and finally the student was left free to select the studies that he would pursue, and the order in which he would pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine theological students to be capable of a perfunctory performance at prayers, as is the case with ninety-nine hundredths of the undergraduates to whom the liberty...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In reply to your suggestion in Thursday's issue, I wish to state that we secured Sever 11 because Mr. Gough preferred to speak to a small, select body of students; rather than to a large, mixed audience in Sanders Theatre. If the faculty will allow us the use of Sanders for our future meetings, we shall only be too glad to avail ourselves of the opportunity...
...vast mass of abstracts and quotations from books and manuscripts which he designs to use later in the preparation of his histories. Now, I would urge that some such plan be adopted in the library in the matter of such newspaper clippings as it may seem worth while to select and index...
...contain the younger and more energetic of the instructors in their departments among their members. Will not the clubs, therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive and select a certain number of topics under which cuttings are to be arranged; for each topic provide a paper bag, in which the slips are to be filed, and arrange these bags in alphabetical order on the shelves of one of the alcoves in the library. Perhaps on many topics under...
Prof. Huxley of the Eton corporation in his evidence before the Select Committee on Education, Science, and Art of last year, thus pronounced his opinion on the present curricula of public schools: "I do not disguise my conviction that the whole theory on which our present educational system is based, is wrong from top to bottom; that the subjects which are now put down as essential, and on which the most stress is laid, are luxuries, so to speak; and that those which are regarded as comparatively unessential, and as luxurious are essentials. For example, it is perfectly possible under...