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...will be agreeable to him, and that the College will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment; for whatever may be the result, it is evidence of a desire on the part of the College government to widen the scope of the University curriculum, which must command the approval, not only of Harvard students, but of all true friends of education throughout the country...
...since been referred to in our columns. Instead of the present rule, which divides the persons recommended for the bachelor's degree into two classes, dependent entirely upon the average mark attained for the whole course, or for the Junior and Senior years combined, it is proposed to widen the field. By the new plan the members of the graduating class who, availing themselves of the elective system, have devoted their time and labor to such special studies as they judge best calculated to promote their aims and purposes in after life, will receive, on the "Commencement Programme...
...every new discovery, whether of science or mechanics, the first query is, "To what can this be applied?" and forthwith keen-sighted men are found straining their vision over the broad field of future possibilities, and those who widen the range of its application often outrank the original discoverer of the art itself...
...object of the offensive articles was to sell the paper, they have been eminently successful, for dozens of Harvard men have purchased these monuments of Yale's lack of courtesy. If their object was to widen the breach which exists between the two colleges, they were equally well adapted to their purpose. But they have certainly injured the reputation of Yale in other colleges, and it is to be hoped that they have injured the Record among the better classes at Yale...