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...chief aims of the present elective system, as I understand it, is to require every student to concentrate in some field and avoid the dissipation of energy in the elementary study of a large number of unrelated subjects. Concentration necessitates the performance of a certain amount of advanced work, which is of greater advantage in developing mental power than a much larger amount of elementary work, which often consists merely in the acquisition of information, and does not necessitate any connected thought or analysis. It would seem, therefore, that the elective system were a success in forcing students...
...only one class on Saturday and would like to have that class changed to Friday; but the rule is definite and inviolable. He must register after his last College engagement and College engagements cannot be broken. If there are any left who are too dull to understand the rule or who are self-pitying enough to see reasons why they alone should be allowed to break it, then they deserve any ill-temper which may fall to them from the Dean, whose misfortune it is to have to listen to them...
...rules which govern the Christmas recess this year are very clear; but they need emphasis. Everyone must understand that the vacation will have a clean-cut beginning and end. It will begin when a man's last class on the twentieth is over and he has registered, and will end when his first class on the fifth begins. There will be no added allowance for travel. Nothing could be clearer than this, and yet there probably will be a hundred men with courage to ask for more time. Men who intend to make this demand should remember that the College...
...write you in regard to a matter which was, I understand, recently the subject of comment in your columns, the conflict between a proposed half-hour test in Physics 1 on November 8 and the proposed expedition to Princeton on the same...
Since all do not understand the plan as outlined in yesterday's CRIMSON, it seems advisable to elaborate certain features that were not fully touched upon. The trip to New York will be on the Fall River boat. These boats are equipped with staterooms which may be secured at various prices. There will be a supply of $1 and $2 rooms which will accommodate two men each. The men will therefore choose their room-mates and divide the cost of the stateroom. If it is possible, stateroom reservations will be sold by the committee with the transportation tickets...