Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...elective system, offering, as it does, choice of so many studies, has a tendency to develop specialists in one study, the evil effects of which in youthful education are freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and natural history to be learned at haphazard. All will admit the value of these studies in developing sides of our character and tastes which History, Philosophy, Mathematics, or the general study of literature necessarily fails to do. Acknowledging the value of Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, many a man of a literary...
After all, though, ostracism is not very practicable at present; and I have in mind a much less troublesome system of getting rid of disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to do so. The plan is very simple. All you need is a large house, a steep staircase, and a pair of hobnailed shoes. The house is a sort of decoy. You invite the man that you don't like to dine with you, or inveigle him into your power...
...repugnant, to the neglect of the classics, and other subjects which would be at once more congenial, more useful, and more improving. Freshmen should study mathematics without doubt, but it is manifestly unnecessary to force them to study four different kinds, besides mechanics and chemistry. The effect of this system is twofold: to make the Freshman year very disagreeable and expensive to those students who have not mathematical minds, and to fill the pockets of private tutors, who expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman...
...prevent by making fifty per cent the requisite mark in every examination. In this way of looking at it the change may result in some good, but however great this good may be, it seems to me to be more than outweighed by the disadvantages which will attend the system. According to this regulation, each and every examination may be called, if not the cause, at least the condition of getting a degree. Is it fair that the work of a single three hours should have such importance? Even good scholars, owing to indisposition, mistakes, or misunderstanding, often do poorly...
...result of the working of this new system it is easy to foresee. Seniors, as was last week pointed out, will take pains - and often at the sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other...