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...common sense, remove some of the hurdles and hazards which turn prospective entrants in ever-increasing numbers to the welcoming gates of other abodes of learning? I am not an advocate of the certificate method of admission; on the other hand, I am no believer in the super-boy and boys, who, taking them by and large, work harder in their years at preparatory school than they ever do afterwards in college, are inevitably influenced by the contrasting difficulties of admission to the various universities whose fame is greatest throughout the land. Certainly the Harvard requirements are not of such...
...Instrumental Club will give its annual concert at the Watertown High School this evening at 8 o'clock. The concert is for the benefit of the Scholarship Fund, of the Watertown Harvard Club, the purpose of which is to send one Watertown boy to the University each year...
Referring to your editorial of this morning, "Boy Page Mr. Whitney", I believe I can contribute some decided evidences of Harvard democracy. As you know, the Engineering School has several dozen of its third-year men out in industry on the cooperative plan. These men are seeking knowledge of the world's work by measures more authoritative than books. Commenting on one of these men last week, a foundry superintendent said as follows: "When I was asked to put your student on our cupola gang, I thought he would be doing well if he stood the pig iron carrying about...
Richard Bennett has the title role in Louis K. Anspacker's new comedy, "My Boy," which Sam H. Harris will present at the Tremont Theatre next week...
...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...