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...Belgium, a society specially interested is the furtherance of the Louvain Library idea, are now circularizing two thousand other schools of this country. Enthusiastic pledges of the utmost cooperation have been received from such institutions as Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois, Hunter College, Trinity College, Bryn Mawr, Catholic University of Washington, Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, McKendree College of Lebanon, Illinois, and the Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina...
...present list of members of the student groups expecting to take one of the tours are the following colleges and universities: Williams, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, University of Chicago, Brown, Boston University, University of Kentucky, University of Wisconsin, Northeastern, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Goucher, Hunter, Grinnell, Indiana University, West Virginia University, Dartmouth, New York University, and the Sorbonne...
Another answer to the old query, "What is the matter with the colleges?" is proposed by a Bryn Mawr alumna in a recent communication to the Nation. She answers it with another question: "where is the whole panorama of college and university life in America today among men as well as women, is the courage and mental grasp to see what that is new in a rapidly changing world needs championing and support?" In humbler but more outspoken phrasing, she charges the colleges with conservatism and blindness to the radical movements of the country. Such a suggestion is refreshingly unconventional...
...Bryn Mawr suggestion leaves us not altogether comfortable. When we recollect an incident of two years ago, in which a little group of willful Freshmen broke up a Bolshevist meeting in Roxbury; when we think of the audiences--or the absence of audiences--at certain voluntary addresses on modern problems, or remember the difficulties that the Liberal Club has met with in getting recognition among undergraduates perhaps we are not as open minded as we like to believe. It is only by thoughtful consideration of each new movement as it arises, that we can ward off such charges as those...
...field. Also he is obliged to do some outside reading and study in order to correlate the courses which he has taken and fill up, to some extent, the intervals between them. This is not parallel to the general information examination which has been given for some years at Bryn Mawr, for example; therein the every-day knowledge of the student is tested by questions similar to those which gave Henry Ford such an uncomfortable day on the witness stand. The Harvard examination tests rather the broader bearings and significance of such special learning as the college courses have poured...