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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half of one percent of those who attend universities, he proposes to relegate to some secluded cloister where they could thumb the pages of forgotten manuscripts, unannoyed by the sound and fury of the present-day educational institution...
...standards ridiculously low. By the theory of Dean McConn, a few would acquire a great amount of erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence. The inevitable result would be that when released from this turkish bath of learning they would lack the practicability to apply their knowledge to actuality...
There are other possible changes besides the kind of modification, which the wets went. Modification may proceed in either of two directions. It may proceed in the direction of softening the law, permitting 2. 75 percent beer, which would please no one, or light wines and beers which are, as a matter of fact, intoxicating, or of putting the government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard...
...result, probably, of the avoidance of expense, the collection was also almost wholly devoid of descriptive labels. By estimation, about 90 percent of the specimens were unlabelled, except as each set of specimens was marked with the name of the collector or donor. In this condition, a collection, no matter how valuable, is extremely difficult of comprehension by students, and indeed the interest which the intelligent public can take in it is greatly diminished. Again, the many duplicates, indestructible, and other objects, which for one reason or another are not on display, are, for lack of proper storage facilities, tucked...
...Harvard photographs have proved to be the most prolific source for the discovery of variable stars, and also of the spectacular objects known as new stars or novae. Thus, 70 percent of the 7000 stars known to vary in brightness, and 67 percent of the 52 new stars which have flashed out since 1885, have been discovered at Harvard from observations of these photographs. And before 1885 few objects of either kind were known...