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...editorial in the Crimson of February 10 on the proposals of the Alumni Section of the National Student League shows a commendable concern over the social utility of educational projects. "Maintaining 'free courses in graduate schools," says the editor, "would undoubtedly support a certain number of incompetent persons who would never be of use to society." In view of the conspicuous usefulness to society not only of graduate schools, but of almost all enterprises in higher education, such as liberal arts colleges, tutorial systems, houses, and so forth, and of the practically infallible guarantee of value to society that ability...
...institutions of higher learning. Briefly, the German method consists in removing the emphasis on instruction by lecture, and in substituting seminars for the old lecture courses. In this country, the term "seminar" has come to connote instruction of a highly advanced kind, as in the 20 courses whose primary concern is with research; but the Germans use the term liberally, and apply it to courses which are, relatively speaking, introductory. A rough counterpart of the latter "seminar" can be found in the better conference groups in History 1. The keynote of the German seminar is reduced size, individual attention...
Student managers of "The Student Laundry" have lost their position with that concern, it was disclosed last night. Founded by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, "The Student Laundry" for many years had been a student enterprise. The present situation was caused by the absorption of "The Student Laundry" by the "Creamer-Wing Laundry Company." As an economy measure, the latter company dropped the student personnel: E. N. Cooper '34, H. B. B. Robinson '35, and S. M. Wyman...
...State Department, no less diplomatic than Tokyo's Foreign Office, averted its eyes from all this naval activity in the Pacific. What Japan did in the Carolines, either with dredges or battleships, did not concern the U. S. And last week word leaked out of the Navy Department that, as a friendly gesture to Japan, the Scouting Force will probably be returned to the Atlantic at the conclusion of Fleet Problem...
...Provision for daily bread will be as important a concern for us as fulfillment of social obligations toward the sick and aged...