Sentence examples for the elective system from inspiring English sources
"The Work of Cornell University for Agriculture". "The Elective System and its Limits" in Regents Bulletin.
Our great republic has been the only example in the world of a regular and orderly transfer of governmental succession by the elective system.
It is true that the elective system for America's upper chamber is to blame for the characteristic gridlock of its government.
At Columbia, Barnard changed his views, urging the college to expand its curriculum and introduce the elective system into the last two undergraduate years, to best develop advanced scholarship leading to graduate and professional education.
But when Harvard championed the "elective system" and showed how electives might be used to give freedom to teachers and students alike, with the chance for greater mastery in each chosen discipline, the required curriculum everywhere fell apart.
Perhaps it should also be noted that after World War I1 many of the champions of the elective system finally reversed themselves, to impose on underclassmen an almost drastic intermixture of subjects, called General Education.
Scholars say the elective systems for judicial selection have their roots in the populist movement that sought to expand the power of the electorate.
Some critics would eventually condemn what they considered to be the excesses of the free elective system and the extreme departmentalization of research and curricula.
One impact of this elective system may be to enhance recruitment.
In place of the aimless elective system, he substituted a unified curriculum of general studies during the freshman and sophomore years, capped by concentrated study in one discipline (the academic "major") during the junior and senior years.
There was a lot to do: electing trustees; securing the land-grant scrip; writing a progressive Plan of Organization (inventing the modern American university's elective system); hiring faculty; purchasing books for the library and equipment and furnishings for its laboratories, classrooms and living quarters; establishing admissions policies and attracting students.
