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...growing conception of the times that a university should serve the community not alone as an educational institution but by direct co-operation with the State. The importance of this newer conception of the university's position is most strikingly seen in those Western states where the so-called "Wisconsin idea" has been definitely applied. With the constant trend towards "state socialism," the necessity for such expert advice as a university alone can adequately supply grows ever greater. Concrete expression of this sentiment was given in the submission of a bill to Congress during the past winter for the establishment...
...seem to have gone nearly far enough to satisfy the superintendents. "That the needed change has been so long in coming," says the report, "is largely the fault of the public school men, who have been content to accept the proposition that the college has an inherent right to direct the high school course." Many radical departures from even the newest plans of entrance requirements are proposed. If the changes come slowly it should at least be reassuring to the New England teachers that five Eastern colleges of the importance of those we have named have recognized the need themselves...
...opportunities in journalism, they are boundless. Any man, no matter what his profession, would be the gainer by two or three years' devoted service as a newspaper reporter. The experience he would amass, in quick thinking, in the power of swift and direct expression, in knowledge of men and affairs, he would find invaluable. Often, after a few years of work, a reporter, thrown into contact with lawyers or doctors or scientists or business men, discovers in himself an unsuspected aptitude for one of these other pursuits, and leaves his first choice for the new. But he carries with...
...clock. The members of the University Glee Club will occupy a special reserved section on the floor, and will sing several songs during the intermission as well as one number on the regular program. Three undergraduates will have individual parts on the program. L. G. del Castillo '14 will direct the Symphony Orchestra for his Fantasia on Harvard Airs, and J. R. O. Perkins '14 and A. F. Pickernell '14 will sing "My Cousin Caruse...
...United States, in its present difficulties with Mexico, has a great opportunity to show the way. The eventual conquest of that country would be America's acquisition of an "Irish problem," to which she would have to devote attention which should be directed on matters nearer home. Europe is looking for America to lead, and it is the duty of our younger generation to so direct the great forces surely at work that international peace may soon be prevalent, and that we may soon have "a finer race of men and women than the world has ever seen...