This fault of American education is
aggravated by the elective system. The
student Is permitted to choose among
the courses offered by the university
those which correspond best with his
preferences or his needs. And as these
courses are numerous it is easy for him
to satisfy his caprices. It is true that
Yale has used prudence In applying this
system hy limiting the choice in cer
tain subjects. It Is not the lees true
that the student has too many oppor
tunities of following the Inspiration of
his Inexperience.
He has an inclination to pick out
subjects which may be useful to him
later In his vocation without Inquiring
whether he lias laid the indispensable
foundations of general culture. He
forms the habit of putting on the same
plane all the manifestations of human
activity, without making the necessary
distinction between those which are es
sential to the development of the mind
A Light Tear.
I Now T have seen how far away must
be
Recognisance when one has loved a
| star!
| Their tinw* and tides with ours do not
agree,
i But scores of our swift years their
light years are.
Their speech Is Light, a Hermes mes
senger ;
Yet, If you speak them, you must
wait?and - wait.
Till through the Vast that spheral trav
eler
Their answer brings you?fleet, yet
passing late!
| Once, In my dreaming years, a star T
chose
To be. In heaven, the comrade of my
soul.
I learned when It went down, and when
It rose,
And all Its season Journey round the
pole.
