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...Complaints about examinations are usually directed against questions which presuppose knowledge which the student does not feel he should be required to have gained in the course. Only occasionally is the complaint directed against questions on the ground that they are too general. The English 72 examination reprinted in part elsewhere on this page affords a striking example of this last type of examination. There is nothing petty in any of the required questions. All are manifest attempts to allow the student to tell what he knows about the five poets studied in the course...
Such an impression is highly unfortunate, and strenuous measures of some kind should certainly be taken to correct it. Yet it seems hardly fair to put the blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution. Obviously, men are being sent from the Law School out into the legal world with no knowledge of the truly important functions of the lower courts and a consequent lack of respect for the Bench...
...drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that no one utters a single word of complaint at the enforced inactivity of the succeeding...
Other Objections. Against the transfer legislation, to which there was the least general objection, Drys raised a strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of 'legger leakage this, too, should be under the Department of Justice. Industrialists legitimately using alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after...
...this respect, alone, the Harvard Fund, contributed by the Alumni and given to the University to employ at its own discretion, justifies its existence. The inadequacy of teaching salaries is a complaint so often attuned to the public ear in this country that it generally falls on barren ground, but the fact remains that the men at the top of any other profession command incomes far exceeding those of the leading educators in the wealthiest colleges. As President Lowell states, the Alumni contribution is best put to use in increasing the salaries of the teaching staff. After four years...