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...said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went on to say, "in that he thought the best way to understand the world was to observe it, not argue about it. He was a transcendentalist through his contact with Emerson, who was his inspiration. He came at the end of one phase of the so-called romantic period. Whitman was also the climax of the period of offensive American assertiveness...
...mention personal experience, I was thrown into contact with the journalists of Cambridge and with the future politicians whose forum is the Union, and with such rapidity that the processes of mental adjustment became almost painful. Any American who goes to England now for a year will necessarily learn much about his own country through being obliged to defend many of her actions...
...Contact between faculty and undergraduate is a subject which has been discussed for more than a few years; there may be some who feel that recent increases in enrolment have just opened up the problem. This is not entirely true--of course large enrolments accentuate the situation, but it has existed for a long time. At least once a year comment has been made upon it in the editorial columns of the CRIMSON...
...greatly thereby. The recognition of the opportunity, however, usually comes fairly late in an undergraduate's life, and there are many who, when they complete their college course are utterly oblivious of the fact that they are missing anything. Obviously, there is need for stimulating the undergraduate desire for contact with the great minds of the University...
...class a few men, with the proper qualifications, were to teach in the college for two or three years, these men might well act as a kind of intermediary between, the student body and the faculty. They would be naturally in touch with the undergraduates, and could maintain their contact fairly easily. At the same time, by their interest in affairs academic and intellectual, they would set an example which could not fail to have its effect, and they would also be able to further the acquaintance between the student and the older members of the Faculty. The case...