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Apparently American educators are not alone in the obstacle they are constantly struggling to overcome.--"the profound ignorance of the average undergraduate". The following from the "Manchester Guardian", excerpts from a "general knowledge" examination in an English school, are eloquent enough without further comment...
...phrase "patriotic pack" applied derisively and indiscriminately to you and me leaves a most disagreeably sour taste. In its current issue, the "New York Nation" comments editorially on the case of Professor James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, who was dismissed in 1917 "without proper charges or heating, accused of 'sedition, treason, and opposition to the enforcement of the law of the United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether...
Dean Briggs went on to quote passages from the poem and to comment on the characters and the author, ending by stating: "If he had written nothing but the monologues in the story he would yet have been among the great English poets...
...heard Mr. Eaton, of critical fame, give a lecture recently in which he stigmatized Boston as a "leg-show-town"; adding forthwith that so few good plays visit the city because the good plays always fall to fill their theatres. A none too subtle comment on the intellectuality of Boston...
...random. It will be seen at once that they are not only the ordinary attendance records, course grades, and Dean's recommendations; they include also the financial statements, various college rules, and a thousand other minutiae of university affairs--The following selection, I believe, need no further comment. I translate freely but without distortion...