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...thorough personal canvass of all the members in the University has been made during the year. The direct results of this canvass were not very apparent, but it is felt that a great deal has been done indirectly in arousing more interest and alleviating the feeling that the Union was becoming unpopular...
...policy of allowing only those societies having over 60 per cent of their members, members of the Union, the use of rooms has worked most satisfactorily. The direct results have been (1) to reduce the number of societies using the Union from 61 to 48, and (2) to increase the membership of the Union considerably, as nearly of the societies having less than 60 per cent, have raised their percentage to the required point. The Committee advises a light ring of the ropes in this respect another year. One of the smaller bed rooms has been allotted to the exclusive...
Tulin, in closing the direct debate, said: My colleagues have shown you the marked tendency in American colleges to shun the free elective system, which has proved so unsatisfactory at Harvard, not withstanding its restriction by many limitations. When a few weeks ago the Harvard Faculty instituted a new degree--an A.B. with distinction--which requires that a student shall pursue his courses in a single department under the supervision of the Faculty, they stamped work done under special direction as of higher value than unrestricted study. What more eloquent testimony than this illustrates the tendency away from the free...
Hagan, the first speaker for Princeton in rebuttal, pointed out that the negative had offered no alternative system of study. The Harvard system has proved successful, he said. It has not produced an undue number of specialists, and is the direct outgrowth of modern scientific advancement. By it are developed the responsibility, self reliance, and individually which characterize the college man who is fit to take that place in life for which opportunities in college mark...
...generator will give 50 kilowatts direct current at 110 volts, as against 30 kilo-watts given by the one in use. The expense of the apparatus represents improvements to the plant and will be distributed, both principal and interest, over a number of years...