Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...both of the Magenta and the Advocate - yet discussed at much less length than the interest felt by upper-classmen demands - will not be overlooked, we hope, in arranging the philosophical courses open to us next year. It is not for us to discuss here the soundness of any system of Philosophy; but we wish to point out one or two arguments in favor of an elective in the New Philosophy which appear to us convincing. Assuming that it is not philosophy, but the power to philosophize, that students are here taught, - and the distinguished head of our Philosophical Department...
...paper, in fact, appears to have been constructed on the hypothesis that the entire time of the student has been devoted, like that of the tutor, to the contemplation of a single subject. In the years when the elective system is open to the student, such a supposition is not unwarrantable; but the studies of the Freshman year are arranged, if we mistake not, with the purpose of giving the scholar a taste of many branches of study, in order that he may choose his future course with more certainty...
...most of the meetings. There is a very interesting list of the additions made to the Library during the last year and of the periodicals taken by the Society, which shows that the members are intelligent and interested in the latest researches in all departments of knowledge. The whole system seems to be directed to the development of a riper, sounder judgment and understanding than is common among American undergraduates...
...battle of Lexington, Harvard College seems to have taken no active part, doubtless because the system of voluntary recitations had not then been instituted. It seems to us now as if no such exciting event as a battle could have transpired near the College without the students' having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps...
...then, can we not have a course of lectures to supply this want? Something of the kind seems to be almost a necessary supplement of the elective system; and it appears that formerly some attempt was made to supply it. Seven years ago the President of this College gave two courses of lectures, - one, during the first term, to the Freshman class, on the subject of "Integral Education"; the other, during the second term, to the Senior Class, on the "Mutual Relations of the Sciences." These subjects seem to indicate the scope of the instruction desired, and, if made...