Word: selective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sense and dogmatism." Among other things cried out against was the elective system, the stale stock arguments being brought up against it, and aimed very plainly against the particular case of Harvard. "He declares," says this Boston paper, "that an American boy of eighteen is not competent to select the studies which will give him the most valuable training or best fit him for active life. Any one," it continues, "who has watched the tendency and effect of the elective system must heartily indorse Dr. Crosby's conclusions, in which, we are sure, he voices the earnest feeling...
...hare and hounds run. All those who took part in a similar run two years ago will remember the enjoyment and excitement of the day, which was only dampened by the difficult roads the hares chose. This trouble has been remedied this year by requiring the hares to select good roads. All who can should participate in this...
...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...
...courts or of one man reserving for private use the best court to be found, is unjust to the extreme and we hope that another year of dissatisfaction will be more fruitful in reform. Some persons have always insisted upon the inutility of the association except to a select few, and they may now feel reassured in their opinion by the present management of tennis matters...
Seniors can procure class day tickets at 9 Holworthy today from 2 to 5 P. M. The assessment will be $11.00, and each senior will select by lot a package containing 4 Sanders, 10 Memorial, 7 tree and 16 yard tickets. Cash must be paid on receipt of tickets...