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...especially so with Colonel Woods as the speaker. He is a man who talks straight out from the shoulder and expresses his ideas vividly. Throughout an enviable career in public office and private life Colonel Woods has been an inspiration to all with whom he has come in contact. In New York every member of the police force refers to the ex-commissioner as "chief"--a man whose office door was open to everyone and who built up a name for fearless fairmindedness in thought and act. His recent connection with the Americanization work and with Secretary Hoover is typical...
Sane, self-criticism, if properly utilized, forms one of the greatest assets a university can have. To be most effective, such criticism must come from within from men whose daily contact with working conditions in the university makes their suggestions valuable. At Harvard the full benefit from inside criticism is not realized, due in large measure to the difficulties in drawing it out. The University authorities have always shown themselves ready to welcome any suggestion, and the channels for criticism,--filing a petition at University Hall, submitting a communication to the CRIMSON, or taking a question directly to the source...
...days to see my father and the old friends here in the home town. Oh, if you young people who have stage ambitions will only remember to love your home town wherever it may be, and go back to it once in a while, you will spare yourself contact with so many of the temptations which beset those who rub elbows with the great world without...
...Whitman's suggestions all point toward this end. They alone, if adopted, would have a very good influence; and form a stable foundation upon which to raise the new building. The essence of the whole plan is, as has been said time and again, contact and freedom. The tutorial system is in various stages of development in all departments that have the general examinations except that of Ancient and Modern Languages; it is not now practicable to have it there. But it will come--and then in all departments there will be the problem of coordinating its work with that...
...more effective the contact between students and faculty, and the sooner the realization of the true purpose of study, the more freedom can be given with impunity. The extent to which undergraduates are interested in their college work, because they recognize its value to themselves and not because of "two C's and a D", furnishes a good measure by which to judge the success of a college...