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...intercollegiate Educational platform complied by the editors of several college papers. Many of the "planks", as the New Republic points out, deal with extra-curriculum activities, but there is some little discussion of "passivities", the courses offered in universities today. Princeton calls for more humanities. Yale demands that we avoid the "cultural blight which follows in the train or economics and other such studies". Amherst, however, disagrees; and asks for a conscious effort to face the social, political and economic problems of reconstruction. Plainly studies are receiving undergraduate attention...
...York College also has arraigned the traditional courses, seeking to avoid the present custom which makes the first and even second years of college mere continuations of preparatory school. In place of "courses of elementary grade" it requests broader subjects whose purpose is to "orient the student in adult thought." A course in the History of Mankind which should show his environment; a course in Human biology and psychology; a third in mathematical analysis; Literature taught as an aspect of life, and the inevitable technique of expression; such is the suggested plan for Freshmen...
...solution which would completely avoid the difficulty is made impossible by the human factor involved; but a partial avoidance would not seem to be beyond the limit of attainment. The exactness now strived for in the Announcement constitutes one obstacle which might easily be overcome. If, in regard to courses which may not be given each year, some statement of probability could be made, the responsibility would be shifted to the student. For example, if a certain course were announced this year as "probably omitted in 1924-25", those wishing to take that course would have to take the statement...
...trained to the work which is recognized as a regular path to the peerage. Such a system is apparently perfectly workable there and is subject to none of the political shifts which occur. Granting that unfinished plans often look poorly in print, a return to the spoils system to avoid tale-bearing seems like cutting off the nose to spite the face...
...trials for the spring trip will be held tomorrow afternoon. These tests will not be the only factor in deciding what men will go south, but they will undoubtedly play an important part in the selection. In order to avoid the possibility of overtraining his men Coach Bingham will cut the length of the races down to approximately half of their normal length...