Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boys of eighteen fitted to judge of their strong or their own weak points? Can they select for themselves out of this enormous bill of fare (425 hours per week offered by Harvard) the 12 hours most conducive to their mental growth? I have not met such young men among the undergraduates of any college, nor do I expect to meet them. If experienced men who devote a lifetime to the study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen...
...audience was large and select, and caught the spirit of the play from the first. The society has every reason to be pleased with the manner in which the performance was received, particularly in view of the fact that hitherto the society has given only burlesques at Havernill, and some hesitations was felt in introducing legitimate comedy. The impersonations of Mr. Winter were greeted with much applause, and he was obliged to answer to several encors. After the performance the company sat down to a sumptous repast at the Webster House, provided by the manager of the theatre...
...point of fact, a great deal of excellent literary work is done here all the time in the required and elective work of the English department. And to give the best of this work to the college public, is the object of our literary supplement. Our plan is to select, with the assistance of the instructors of the English department, the most readable of the essays, " themes," and " forensics," which in the past have lain idle in the desks of the instructors, and to print them in the form of a monthly supplement. At all events we shall...
...essays. With the beginning of the next college year this system of elective studies is to be introduced into the freshman class. A slight amount of work, chiefly in rhetoric and composition, is still to be required; but the freshman is to be allowed a liberty of selection as great as has usually been granted the members of the sophomore or junior class. The objections to this extension of the elective system have been quite as numerous and strong as have been those urged against the system in its ordinary application. Indeed, the objections have been quite identical...
...entering the school. The degree of Ph. D. may be given two years after the Bachelor's degree. A list of 32 courses is given under the heads of History, Economic Science, Political Ethics, Constitutional, Administrative and International Law and Social and Sanitary Sciences; from this the student can select his course. The seminary method is largely used in many of the courses, and in addition there is a Political Science Association divided into five sections (Historical, Economic, Administrative, Pedagogic and Scientific) for voluntary work and the benefits of mutual stimulus and co-operation. The courses in history...