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...fortunate that, in such a difficult course, the sections conducted by Dr. Currie should be such as to clear up the problems of the individual student, add to the knowledge of the group as a whole, and attain timeliness and interest throughout...
...sifting and sorting out the more urgent of the applications that the University has adopted the expedient policy of showing preference to Seniors who must have aid in preparation for graduation. On the other hand, the undergraduate of only fair scholastic ability who has manifested a desire to attain a college education in spite of financial handicaps is no less deserving and his position no less acute than that of the departing Senior. The wholesale drying up of outside jobs accentuates the seriousness of each individual application. Faced with the necessity of procuring funds, the student naturally looks either...
...occasionally relieved by a clever twist in the narration of witticisms. But the recurring lapses into distasteful English, the omission of significant detail, a complete lack of spontaneity, and lengthy debate as to the relative merits of secondary sources are inexcusable. When Mr. Cooper states that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
When it was suggested that students could, through the study of translations, regain what they lose by not reading the classics in the tongues in which they were written, he answered, "Oh no. We can never attain in translation the effect of another language. The study of the classics in the original is a valuable part of modern education and if it were to be abandoned it would be a heavy loss indeed...
...practical method of obliterating the faults of the present system, and that is to base the requirements of the M.A. degree upon a thorough examination in the field. This practice of giving general examinations to graduate students would not only permit the particularly gifted men to attain more quickly to the higher degree of the Ph.D., but would enable the others to profit by the general knowledge of the field acquired in meeting the requirements for the degree...