Excerpt from Bowdoin Orient, Vol. 29: April 19, 1899-March 22, 1900 The elective system, however, is not a panacea for all the ills of college life. While it makes possible for every student a vastly superior education to that afforded under the Old required plan, it also makes it possible for those who are so disposed to get a poorer education than the worst that the Old system' allowed. The required system compelled a student to keep pegging away at Latin, Greek, and mathematics long enough to acquire by sheer force Of habit, if in momore strenuous fashion, a certain familiarity with the rudi ments of these studies. Under a system of free choice it is possible to elect a series of unrelated elementary studies in such a way as to acquire only a smattering of many things, without thorough mastery of any one. Excessive specialization is also a possible evil which the elective system permits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.