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...selection of Harvard University Press Books in English Literature and Belles-Lettres" is the title of the latest pamphlet issued by the Press and listing and describing all the Harvard publications which appeal to the student of belles-letters, folklore, poetry and drama. The newest of these books is "Courtly Love in Chaucer and Gower,' by W. G. Dodd. Professor of English at Florida State College for Women...
...difference is not so great as to defeat the aim of the system -- to provide a man in the University who will aid the Freshman in all times of need. If conscientiously carried out, this system will become the means of personal contact between the College, and its newest members, and will prevent the feeling that the are allowed by the University to sink or swim as they...
...superannuated gentry who appear from nowhere each spring and with withered hands minister to sadly bedraggled borders, are with us once again. Not content with knocking off our hats as we pass, by the vigorous sweeps of their rake handles or with flinging grass seed inadvertently upon our newest outing garments, these ancient toilers have this year, conceived the notion of erecting formidable wire entanglements about arbitrary to man's lands, and thus sheltered they enjoy ham sandwich "spreads" during the noon hour in perfect travesty of Class...
...card indexes, telephone and mailing lists; typical blank forms, ledgers, and account books, and the latest ideas in filing devices. The $10,000 tabulating machine is considered one of the greatest time-savers ever invented; it is not sold, but rented by the year to various organizations. The newest addition to the laboratory is a "stenotype" machine, which is modelled on the plan of a typewriter and takes shorthand automatically. Five different adding machines have also been installed, and besides all the foregoing, there are a number of automatic mailing machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, cash registers, dictophones...
Although Cambridge's newest move emphasizes the practical and immediately useful studies, yet it does not detract from the value of a classical training. What has developed for generations the minds of Englishmen is not now discarded. That the greatest stronghold of Greek and Latin should not adjust its requirements until 1918 gives convincing proof of their durability. The demand for men whose training has been devoted entirely to success in business has caused an addition to the college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which...