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...curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond...
...assets, and also to reduce the debt very largely, instead of increasing it. The current expenses of this year will be much less than last year, if the managers come anywhere near their estimate. Add the sums $2172.72 already spent, and the estimate of future expenses, $4211.73, and then subtract the bills paid and unpaid, left from last year, $2054.91, and $470.00, the share of the class crews towards the running expenses and service at the boat house, and the result is $3859.54, or over $1100.00 less than the figures recently given, $4975.00, as the actual expenses of the university...