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...very difficult, he said, to obtain accurate statistics of the birth and death rates throughout the United States. The census results, which furnish the only means of ascertaining the vital statistics of the rural population, are inaccurate. According to the census statistics, the annual death rate in the United States is 16.3 per cent, of the total population. Professor Willcox, however, after a careful calculation of possible errors, places the death rate at 19.56 per cent, of the population. It is interesting to observe that the death rate of negroes is in some states 60 per cent, higher than that...
...question for debate was "Resolved. That, the free elective system is the best available plan for the undergraduate course of study. It is understood, that: 1. The free elective system is one based on the principle that each student should select for himself all his studies throughout his college course. 2. The free elective system, thus defined, exists even when a minor part of the studies of the freshman year is prescribed...
These two elements, individual fitness and individual interest, constitute the essence of vital scholarship, which reacts upon the student for his own benefit by raising the standard of instruction throughout his college course. Official protection is withdrawn from certain studies and the professors are compelled to establish course of such intrinsic interest as to cause students voluntarily to elect them...
...free elective system of Harvard to the German universities. Conditions in American colleges, however, are quite different from those abroad, and, even admitting the very questionable success of this system at Harvard, it does not necessarily follow that the system would prove successful in other colleges and universities throughout the country. Although the system may be theoretically sound, it has never been tested to any extent, and it is impracticable to carry into effect...
...that out of 372 students as many as 254 took no physics, 250 no mathematics, and 140 no philosophy. Another evil attendant upon this system is the election of "snap courses." Dean Briggs in 1900 declared that nearly 30 per cent, of the college took nothing but elementary, work throughout their college curriculum. On the other hand, confronting the earnest student is the danger of early and extreme specialization. Over 20 per cent, of the University begin to specialize at least as early as the end of their Freshman year. These are some of the evils peculiar to the free...