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...rational. One comes to college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why then, Phi Beta Kappa is the mark of success in curricular pursuits--and most to be desired. Unfortunately, the hypothesis that the curriculum in itself constitutes education is the weak link in the chain of this logic; for it is too obvious that the curriculum is but a part very likely the most important part, but not the whole of the connotation of a "college education" in America today: Friendship, personal relationships, and contacts, a certain amount of freedom for individual initiative--all these...
Weak floors, plaster walls, and wooden stairways are not conducive to the safety of the hundreds who make use of these recitations halls each day. Nor does the absence of adequate fire-escapes improve conditions. True, Sever boasts a well hidden system of chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down...
...world. I am always reminded of and quote the words of my friend, the poet William Yates, who has spoken of the 'vast wave of ignorance that spreads from our schools.' Personally, I believe that all good culture descends from father to son. Modern education breaks into this splendid chain by starting new and unnecessary ideas. The parent on the other hand, knows nothing bad. Of course I realize that most persons think of the parent as some sort of a chimpanzee incapable of teaching anything; I simply disagree with those persons, that...
...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock at Symphony Hall, Dr. William T. Grenfell will speak, some remarkable moving pictures of life in Labrador and Newfoundland will be shown and the University Glee Club will sing. This meeting will be held for the express purpose of helping to endow the chain of hospitals serving deep-sea fishermen...