Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...plan is due to an association of Boston ladies, who also undertake the conduct of the examinations, which will be held in Boston. The College, however, stands ready to make a similar arrangement with any association in the country which can guarantee a sufficient number of candidates. Such a system has been operating successfully during the past ten or twelve years at the English Universities...
...suppose that young men and women do not? To us it seems that, if women come to Harvard, the true policy of the College will be teaching, pure and simple, without any laws to control the students outside the class-room. Then it will be expedient that the dormitory system shall be entirely abolished, and instead students will room and board at private houses, as they do in German university towns. If so radical a change as this is really necessary, Mr. Eliot may well hesitate; for a well-endowed college for women could be established at hardly greater expense...
...acknowledge its defects and its liability to abuse; when they do so, a large measure of liberality and fairness should be granted them: this applies very forcibly to the Faculty of the University, whose advice about a plan of study for next year confesses the weakness in the Elective System, while it strives to remedy it. Their suggestions should certainly be received with some consideration by us, as the opinion of men whose desire it is that we should leave college with minds not narrowed by prejudice or conceit, and yet ready to do some especial work...
...long since, an article was published which discussed the present system of college penalties. At that time almost every student was delighted with the near prospect of voluntary recitations and the abolition of morning prayers. Then it was the custom to praise the Faculty for their liberal opinions in regard to college discipline. Then, too, some cherished the hope that in no long time this childish system of privates and publics would be done away with. That the rule against smoking in the yard had been set aside, was considered the first step in this direction. For some time, also...
...perhaps, to wonder at. Some of its exchanges it treats very cavalierly, but for the most part its criticism is fair. The "Department of the Alumnae" we hesitate either to praise or blame. What reason, however, can there be that the author of the plea for an election system should give the following advice? "Elect stern simplicity in dress..... Elect muscle for physical dependence. Dare to mount a wall unassisted; and, further-more, choose a five-mile walk, with a study of nature's coloring by the way, in place of working dogs and dahlias in worsted. Elect a course...