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...organizing this department, the University will do much to improve methods of public health work; at present the majority of men in this field have had no specific preparation, and on account of lack of background, have not had the vision to develop many new ideas. True, there are some who have had the mechanical training--builders of sanitary systems, waterworks architects, city planner--; and some who have had adequate medical training; but practically none who have had both. To offer a combined training is the purpose of the new school...
...With a background like this in transportation is there any reason to hope for better results in mining? Operation of the coal mines is a proposition as complicated and specialized as managing the railroads...
Joseph Stanislaus Jablonski '23 of Rochester, N. Y., is the winner of the Dramatic Club poster designing competition. The delicate pastel shading of the background has caught well the spirit of the play woven about the life of Beranger, the famous song writer. The figure depicted on the poster is a copy of an old picture of this character...
...only course at Harvard. For I have become impressed with the idea that that course is--at any rate potentially--one of the indispensable things in all the University's offering. Fundamental, a groundwork upon which a man may stand in all that he has to do here; a background for all his intellectual life. I gladly, comply with the request of THE HARVARD CRIMSON that I give reasons for my enthusiastic faith in "English...
...lamentably true that a large proportion of American homes send to the preparatory schools, and a large proportion of preparatory schools send on to the colleges, boys who cannot see what they look at and cannot listen to what they hear; who have no background of general information against which to place what they do see and hear; who do not know how to work or read or study or think; who cannot express themselves with precision or confidence in speech or writing; to whom a library or other collection of the treasures of human knowledge and experience are places...