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...overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were allowed to become stopped. In reply he treated it as a matter of light importance, and, worse yet, of frequent occurance. Under such conditions I have seen the walls of the tank coated with slimy scum along the water-line, and the water itself so milky that the bottom could not be seen...
Another question of a diametrically opposite tendency presents itself no less forcibly: why should not the professional study accompany the getting of an acquaintance with many other subjects, so that both go along together, the professional training supplying the backbone of the college curriculum? This is a much more subtle, if not a more difficult, question, and it is one that we must actually face, because it involves a strong existing tendency among American colleges. Again the answer to it is found only in practical experience. Professional study leading to a man's career in life is, and ought...
...practical working out of the elective system must have been similarly impressed, and here in our own university such prominent thinkers on educational topics as Dean Briggs (in his "College Life") and Professor Muensterberg (in his excellent essay, "School Reform," and elsewhere) have written against allowing education to proceed "along the lines of least resistance...
...real effort to break down the 'class-consciousness' of teacher and student, the gulf between their attitudes is too fundamental to be easily bridged. Unless it is bridged, however, the undergraduate is left in a sort of Peter Pan condition, looking back to his schoolboy life and carrying along his schoolboy interests with him, instead of anticipating his graduate or professional study or his active life. What should be an introduction to professional or business life in a world of urgent political and social issues, and the acquiring of intellectual tools with which to meet their demands, becomes a sort...
...Beyond those in hospital work there are, of course, the Harvard men in the Ambulance service, those actually engaged in the war, and those in the diplomatic services. The number is creditable and the work such as we know it, has, we hope, been of some aid and support, along the best lines of endeavor. The effort is certainly praiseworthy. But before closing let me say that there is much yet to be done, that the opportunity for helping is limitless, and that, to those who have gone over, the reward has been found immeasurable...