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Until two years ago when he was called away from Cambridge, Dr. Fitch's weekly talks to the Freshman class formed an integral part of the first year program. Possessing an unusual knowledge of the problems and new conditions to which the Freshman must adjust himself, as well as an appreciation of the plasticity of Freshman character, Dr. Fitch has aided many a bewildered yearling in discovering what things in college life are real and lasting and what things are sham. Many an upper classman remembers with gratitude Dr. Fitch's talks which, coming as they did straight from...
...cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow the path of truth through the labyrinth of ignorance and bewilderment. The mind is to be trained to follow things to their logical conclusion, to seek for the truth from its original sources; and, above all, to weigh...
...make arrangements so that a student enrolled in one group may easily change to another group if there is need of it, to provide a similar freedom of interchange of professors so that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...
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...
...body is supported generally by the students and, still more indispensably, by the authorities of Harvard, the institution will be-operating as an object lesson in this practical economy, even before the public at large has adopted it. The College cannot change the clocks of Cambridge, but it can adjust its academic schedule to conform as nearly as may be possible with the hours of natural heat and sunlight...