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...last day that essays may be submitted for the William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 offered by the National Municipal League for 1913-14. This prize is offered to undergraduate students registered in a regular course in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in Municipal Government. The subject this year is also commanding the attention of municipal reformers over the country: "Is the Commission Form of Government a Permanent One?" The prize will be awarded by judges selected by the executive committee of the League...
Anyone interested in this idea is requested to communicate with me by letter, and I will go into the details of the scheme, which is at present not advanced to the point where direct offers can be made. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART...
...present method of managing teams seems to be a successful one. The important negotiations and business are conducted either by or under the direct supervision of the Graduate Treasurer. The students acting, as managers get a great deal of experience in managing men and affairs, and also have the benefit of advice of the Graduate Treasurer in many matters relating to the conduct of business. The amount of work involved, and the instruction and knowledge received, is very valuable. If efficiency for work in after life is one of the objects of a college course, the college authorities can well...
...most famous man, and real representative of this group, was Mark Hopkins, former president of Williams College. He had the secret of subtle power which the leading writers and great men of that day tried in vain to analyze. With his skill in handling individual men and his direct impressive methods of teaching he truly represented the old-fashioned dignity, simplicity, and reverence which pervaded the class room in the early college days...
...work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg and Heidelberg he came under the direct influence of such men as Ten Brink and Kuno Fischer...