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...instance, what courses will he want? Modern European History, of course, which can explain to him the sources of the War which he has been fighting. Economics, by all means, which will give a background for the business life he intends to take up, for the reconstruction problems which must be solved. He will expect much of the University as he returns from the biggest experience of his life. His desire to learn will be greater than ever before...
...kept in it. There was no hazing,--it was unnecessary,--but the Freshman respected the upperclassman and treated him with consideration. In those days the Freshman was rarely asked to Boston dances, and when thus allowed to mingle with older men he knew how to keep in the background. So far, this year's extra hospitality has been misspent for, instead of appreciating such kindness, the underclassman has taken the attitude that no activity, college or social, can exist without him. And so, haughty and proud of his supposed fame, like the "rah-rah boy" posters, pipe in mouth...
...their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...
...requires us to cut ourselves off from the past and confine our efforts to the narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...
Thursday, January 4: "The Pseudo-Classical Background...