Show HERE has been much gossip in T T THERE THERE our exchanges for some time past over the proposal by President El Elliot ot of H Harvard to shorten the college course from four to three years With due respect respect respect re re- to Mr Elliot and the vast experience ence he has had as president of the first educational institution of our countr country we can neither commend nor approve thi this intended change American education education education tion is even now open to tC the criticism of our transatlantic cousins the cousins the staid Englishman the thinking German and even the witty but logical Frenchman and receives it also for our hasty cramming ramming superficial courses of learn learn- ing The proposed change would be effected by reducing the number of courses required to take a degree from eighteen to fifteen We will admit that Americans are geniuses that they are wonderfully apt in all directions but we we j. j J Of f j 1 1 i I J n j I k must still allow the sound wisdom in the ancient ancien t axiom II There is no no royal road to learning This narrowing o of lines would not be an advantage we we Y beli believe v and s sincerely hope it will not be adopted yC |