Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very gratifying to note the large number of appointments that are being made by the different instructors, for consultation in their courses; and it is to be hoped that every student who has any doubts as to what courses or departments he would best choose, will avail himself of these excellent opportunities of learning something more about the various courses than the mere statements given in the elective pamphlet, and of conversing with those who, by experience, at least ought to know what the advantages of their courses are and what mental requirements those courses are capable of meeting...
...next charge made against our system is that students who follow consistent courses, may become "onesided and erratic." This charge again is true, and in its truth do we find the excellence of our plan. When a student has acquired a certain roundness, it should be the next step for that student to develop some especial talent with which he is endowed. This is made possible in a greater degree under an elective than a prescribed system, and in this possibility of "one sided" intellects becoming still more "one sided" is the virtue of the new regime...
...finally asked how the student fares who has a "constitutional aversion" to study, under the elective system. How does he fare under a prescribed system? Is it better that he should be goaded on in those studies which are distasteful to such students, or that he should be allowed to find some agreeable study, and make progress in it? The elective system was not planned for this class of students. The majority of college men have not a constitutional aversion to study, and it is for them that an elective system presents peculiar advantages...
...FROST, '84.A student in the University who writes short-hand expertly, and long-hand plainly, wishes a position as amanuensis during the summer. Address, E. C. L., No. 3 Linden St., Cambridge, Mass...
...student in the University who writes short-hand expertly, and long-hand plainly, wishes a position as amanuensis during the summer. Address, E. C. L., No. 3 Linden St., Cambridge, Mass...