It came just as a reaction was setting in against a trend in some places, fostered at Harvard by Charles William Eliot's " free elective system, " to offer students almost complete freedom in choosing courses.
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Democratic officials didn't want to change the elective system when their party had a lock on statewide offices, not even after Donald B . Yarbrough, a Democratic attorney from Houston, was elected to the Texas Supreme Court.
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Another thing that you notice is that almost all politicians ( in the average elective system ) are good-looking ( how many politicians do you remember that had only one eye or were plain ugly ? ).
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Pe�a was a progressive member of the PAN who disliked the fraudulent elective system the PAN employed and thus passed the S�enz Pe�a Law, which made the political vote mandatory, secret and universal among males aged eighteen or more.
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The longstanding basic elective system may yet be struck down in a separate suit brought by minority voters, but the federal court cleared the new judgeships for lack of proof that they harmed or were intended to harm minority voters.
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A Boston-bred Unitarian, Eliot was the president of Harvard University for 40 years, beginning in 1879 . His greatest achievement was the establishment and defense of the " free elective system, " which let college students choose their own courses.
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In place of the popular elective system and science curriculum, he championed a Kantian style of education with unified knowledge, moral development, and pursuit of ideals, and a style of democratic governance where students would lead and reason through their own education.
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However, the task of mastering this difficult semitic language proved so unpopular with the students that in 1825 the faculty was constrained to make the study of Hebrew optional ( which innovation was incidentally the beginning of the elective system at Harvard ).
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During this period the growth of the college was rapid; new departments were established; the elective system was greatly extended; more adequate provision was made for graduate study and original research, and the enrollment was increased from about 150 to more than 1000 students.
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Under Eliot's leadership, Harvard adopted an " elective system " which vastly expanded the range of courses offered and permitted undergraduates unrestricted choice in selecting their courses of study-with a view to enabling them to discover their " natural bents " and pursue them into specialized studies.
