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...narrow and of little value as a teacher." In concluding the Monthly suggests as a remedy a rule to forbid the appointment of men as instructors who have not been graduated at least two years, thus giving them an opportunity to broaden their point of view before coming in contact with men whose minds are still undeveloped...
...impossible to believe that such a regulation, which would involve much additional expense to the University, is either necessary or advisable. There is much to be said in favor of personal contact between men who have just finished their undergraduate life at Harvard and men who are newcomers. But the benefit from such a connection depends entirely upon the personality of the young instructor, and this we believe is the key to the whole situation. There are men at Harvard, whose undergraduate life is just completed, and whose work and personality qualify them for positions as instructors...
...conference assembles for the purpose of considering the special work of the president as the leader of the Student Christian Association activities, and to bring the leaders of the Eastern College Associations into the friendly contact necessary for the proper unity of the movement. The discussions will be led by successful presidents of previous years, by general secretaries, and by secretaries related to the general student movement. Addresses will be delivered by President Schurman and Professor Jenks of Cornell, and Rev. F. Boyd Edwards of Princeton...
...department, will be in charge, and the party will start from Boston on Monday, April 15, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon by way of the Bangor division of the Eastern Steamship Company. The trip will be divided into two parts. In the first of these parts contact phenomena will be studied at Cambden, Rockland, Rockport, Thomaston and Warren, while the second division will be devoted to the study of pegmatites at Brunswick and Topsan. From here the party will take train for Portland and return to Boston by boat on Thursday. The trip will be open...
...here a man is far more ready to act upon a suggestion than when his mind and energy are centred on the actual field work. There are, undoubtedly, many cases where men, naturally extremely shy and retiring in nature, are developed into far more efficient workers by the contact of the training table. I know of one cases where the men at table made a special effort to bring out an extremely backward and awkward man, who afterward frankly spoke of the pleasure and benefit which he had gained there...