They registered themselves promptly on the first Thursday of the term; they chose their electives and changed their minds as often as the authorities would permit.
But I find that having electives does not mean that you can elect to study or not, just as you please.
The practice of hedging electives with qualifications is a growing one.
In these years the senior and junior classes together contained 404 men, who chose four electives apiece.
After the electives are chosen and reported in writing to the Dean, the long vacation begins, when plans of study come under the scrutiny of parents, of the parish minister, or of the college graduate who lives in the next street.
In introducing electives a sober pace is commendable.
An elective college which did not make changes of electives difficult would be an engine for discouraging intentionality and persistence.
During the previous month students were discussing with one another what their electives should be.
This estimate is based on the answers I have received to a question put to some fifty recent graduates: "In the light of your present experience, how many of your electives would you change?
We therefore need to limit our subject a little by saying that we are thinking of a wider range of admission electives in the Eastern and Middle State colleges, the range of electives farther west being already large in many cases.
An example of the care which is taken by men who have made themselves authorities on their subjects is to be found in the following passage from President Eliot's address, "A Wider Range of Electives in College Admission Requirements.
If we mean the United States, the range of electives is already very large.
Here in Harvard we have had for many years a considerable range of electives in the admission examinations, particularly in what we call the advanced requirements.
The idea of grouping electives is the fundamental difference between English and American education.
Beyond the visit which each freshman is obliged to make to his adviser in order to have his list of electives duly signed, there is nothing except misdemeanor to bring the two within the same horizon.
A general and predominant introduction of electives is fruitful of evils.
And those institutions seem to me wisest which reserve their electivestill the last half of the college course, then introduce them sparingly, and not miscellaneously, but by coherent courses.
Ethics and the history of philosophy could then be chosen as electives and be followed by the more advanced and specialized courses.
Beyond that there are always enough electives to satisfy any personal wish or whim of the student.
Wellesley is one of the earliest of the colleges to place the fine arts and music on her list of electives counting for an academic degree.
Howard University has a wide range of electives covering a large scope of religious subjects which are offered in the School of Religion.
This can easily be done through the system of electives now in use.
These may be offered as independent electives or they may be required of all pupils who elect the industrial course.
If I understand the calendar of the University of Michigan, and the register of Cornell University, I find in these institutions a broad chance for taking electives and studies which properly belong together.
If they are working for the name of being college graduates, it is no matter whether electives are presented to them or not.
Electives The reasons for selection and sequence of subjects in this schedule are fairly evident from what has gone before, but a few points will bear additional explanation.
There are now eleven full courses of electives open to students.
At that time the scope of electiveswas greatly broadened.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
