1919 AND THE ELECTIVES.

In spite of printed pamphlets, lectures, and intimate talks by Faculty advisers, too many Freshmen in past years have reached the first of May, when their general plans of study are due, without understanding the principles of the elective system. The meeting in New Lecture Hall tomorrow morning is the best adapted remedy yet found for this condition of ignorance. The 285 members of 1919 regularly enrolled in Government 1, plus other Freshmen who have no conflicting lectures, offer the chance for the Committee on the Choice of Electives to reach directly a majority of the class.

The list of speakers is also significant. Mr. Thayer, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine for twenty-three years, has been a leading observer of the growth and standardization of the curriculum. Professor Parker has been the actual administrator of the present method of concentration and distribution. And President Lowell's talk will have the clearness and authoritativeness of the founder of the elective system who has made this, like the Freshman dormitories, one of the fundamental policies of his administration.