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Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Mr. W. S. Murray a consulting engineer of New York, will give an illustrated lecture in Pierce 110 at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening on "The Superpower System as an Answer to a National Power Policy." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...past master, luminous, clean cut, succinct, he proceeded, in half the time the least voluminous of his predecessors had taken, briefly to sum up analagous educational conditions in England, France, and Germany, to deduce his conclusions, modified by conditions of American life, clearly stated, and to give his answer. "Therefore", he said, "from a consideration of all these facts my answer is"--and he gave it. Never once had he mentioned Harvard: probably if he had thought of it, he had thought of it only as an American college...
...Matter" is the title of the last chapter; the reader is tempted to apply the phrase to the book. If life is utterly without meaning, if all action is absurd, why bother to talk about it? The answer is that the author does not necessarily believe this himself. He leaves us to assume that, although he has found no clue to life, he allows us, and occasionally himself to hope that there may nevertheless be some answer to the riddle...
...room will naturally fall into the limbo of the past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees will be made to answer questions and submit reports by the telautograph. Verily "The old orde--splut-- -- --." Even the athletes will be emancipated when wirelessly-controlled automata follow the instructions of inviable--but not abolished--coaches, Then indeed will Harvard tradition be renowned; nothing else of Harvard will survive...
Years ago, people who were considered educated were usually conversant upon subjects of general knowledge in every field. Today, relatively few college students can answer the memory questions which appear in a number of daily papers. They are bound down to one line of enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their...