Word: standing
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...this matter of elective studies I stand midway between the two extremes as represented by Dr. McCosh and President Eliot. I cannot indorse the elective system as President Eliot expounds and defends it, for his position seems to me open to many of the objections which Dr. McCosh urged at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. For instance, it is true that under a system of complete election, a student may get a degree for the study of music, the French drama similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would...
President Eliot, in his annual report, gives a very interesting summary of the various steps which the college has pursued in arriving at its present stand with regard to elective studies. Speaking of the studies which are yet required, he says, "The rhetoric, French, or German, and the elementary scientific lectures, are obviously matters which properly belong to the secondary schools; so that these few remaining requirements of the college course are of a temporary and provisional character, retained in college only until the secondary schools deal with them satisfactorily...
...action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they were mistaken. The classics evidently possess sufficient intrinsic merit to enable them to stand on their own merits, without being protected in a way in which other studies...
...marking system is to be introduced at Princeton, by which the students will be arranged in groups, and in determining the standing of the men, the difficulty of the subject will be taken into consideration, so that a man who receives a mark of 90 in a difficult subject, may stand higher than a man who receives a mark of 95 in an easy study...