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...hold for the work of the University Glee Club; but, in addition to his praise, there is a note of doubt in regard to the success of the club from a "utilitarian" aspect. "Such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary school boy to flee in utter boredom," he says. In this way, an intellectual victory may become a practical defeat in turning away from the University desirable students. The secondary purpose of a Glee Club Tour,--the furthering of the interests of the University in territories where it is little known,--would...
...ground that the singers have "taken the Glee out of Glee Club," puerile as it may seem, has no doubt sprung up. This feeling is principally due to a misunderstanding of the aims of the organization. As long as it remains under its present name, the "ordinary school boy" (who may be well above the ordinary in fields outside of music) will attend the concert expecting light entertainment of the Yale, Princeton and Cornell Glee Club type; or else be frightened away altogether with the thought "that's just like Harvard trying to be high-brow." In either case...
...students transferring to modern languages or to the sciences at the end of their second year. This arrangement has in the past rendered many good students ineligible for the examinations by lack of either three years of Latin or two years of a modern language, either of which a boy concentrating in school science is generally unwilling to include. This difficulty is entirely removed by the two-year Latin Comprehensive Examination: for while the difficulty of passing the examination itself acts as the same check on the poor student, his more capable classmate is not handicapped by not having chosen...
...schools. The same expansion is true of Yale, Columbia and Cornell, to mention only a few instances. Education has become so widely available and so standardized that it can be picked up at the nearest supply station. The choice of college no longer depends so largely on what a boy can learn in any particular place; as far as that is concerned, he can learn much the same thing in many different places. "We see no reason why a boy should not go to Harvard, and Columbia, and Chicago, a year at each place," said Henry U. Sims...
...would fine the offender five dollars, demand that the book be returned (or if it had been lost, then replaced by a new one), and might mote out such further punishment as it saw fit. Such action in these matters, however, treats the undergraduate too much like a small boy. Such provision is all that the Governing Board, can bring forward, and yet the Board, together with those of the student body who have stopped to consider the matter, must realize that the only effective check to such offences is public opinion among the undergraduates...