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...vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially impractical. The answer is that even one vacuum cleaner would suffice for each dormitory. Every room could be cleaned in turn once a week, and on the other six days the broom would perhaps prove a more capable adversary for the ever-present reminder of man's mortality...
...questions which students will be asked to answer...
...benefit of those who were unable to answer the CRIMSON'S first call for Junior and Sophomore candidates for its editorial and news boards, another opportunity will be given this evening at 7 o'clock. All candidates in those classes should report at the CRIMSON Office, corner of Massachusetts avenue and Plympton street...
...must, if he is serious, master that subject well; why, then, it may be asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly to getting as wide an acquaintance with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone who has had practical experience. The mind that deals only with elementary work in many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire a firm grasp of any of them. The smatterer on leaving college is a smatterer. He has never learned anything thoroughly...
...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 to be, almost passionately absorbing in comparison with other subjects pursued at the same time. These are apt to be regarded as of lesser importance as outlying parts...