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Show College Education. To relate c6llege training more closely to life without at tho same time narrowing narrow-ing it and weakening it is a great problem prob-lem in education. We hear much in these days of over-education. Ovcr-educAtion Ovcr-educAtion there cannot be, if training ia properly directed. Misfit education there is already too much of but that sort of teaching which is clearly a misfit bhould not be called education at all, In the new university, as in the best of the old ones of America, there is no general curriculum or race track over which all muet run. The initiative in choice of studies rests with the individual. indivi-dual. His own will determines the direction di-rection of his training, and the future requirenieuns are those deemed necessary neces-sary to make his choice more effective. Tho elective system assumes that there is no one course of study best suited for all minds and purposes. Tho Btudent can arrange his work for himself, under proper ndvkv, better than it can be dono beforehand by any committee or by any concensus of educational philosphers. It is better for the student himself that he should make mistakes eometimes, than thnthc should throughout through-out Ills course be arbitrarily directed by others. The elective system is the strongest agency in the training of the will. It is therefore a most effective force in moral training. President Jordan, |