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...contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be decidedly in the background until the autumn brings the World Series and football. Amsterdam will be the center of interest as the focus of the Olympic games, but wanderers in Europe have been running across extra events going on almost anywhere for the past six months...
Efrem Zimbalist, famed violinist, sat at the piano while a perky little person stood beside him playing the violin. They played a short concerto; then the little fellow took the applause while the great violinist stood in the background...
Yale does not favor concentration except for honors men. Honors men are allowed to concentrate at Yale during their last two years, because they are regarded by the college as already possessing the background essential before specialization can be undertaken, successfully. But the requirements for a major are so slight that the average man can scarcely be said to have a main field of study on which he focuses. The Yale system rests on the premise that for the average undergraduate specialization in college narrows him unduly, and prevents him from attaining a broad cultural background. It is the purpose...
Dean Mitchell believes that the superior intellectual background of the Oxford man entities him to the privilege of scholar's freedom while the American student "needs the give and take of the recitation room and the careful, almost daily, guidance and supervision, not of one instructor but of several." Such treatment does not go to the core of difficulty which lies in the smattering methods of the secondary schools. These have, in turn been foisted on the school by the college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes the distributive in college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes...
With the announcement of the results of the Putnam competition, our faith in the tutorial system has been greatly strengthened. The fact that Harvard won the first intercollegiate brain contest gives evidence of the asset which is acquired from a background of extensive tutorial reading. Indeed the time may come when Radcliffe will meet an opponent on this same field, especially since several women's colleges are now introducing the tutorial system. As both Radcliffe and Wellesley are famed for their English departments, we venture to predict a competition between these...