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...active producers in the marts of the business world, the rest of us are apt to watch them with a feeling of envy. Lower-classmen, Freshmen especially, look ahead two or three more years of college, and wonder just how much it will mean to them. The possibility that Edison may be right occurs to them perhaps. At any rate there is a great deal of talk about "not coming back." "Spring fever becomes an epidemic...
What is an artichoke, a chameleon? Some undergraduates there are who cannot tell; so Professor West asks, in the "Atlantic Monthly", "What do students know?" Professor Boas counters with, "What do teachers know?" When we observe what Thomas Edison demands of those who apply for positions, we ask ourselves if there be any wisdom on earth. What do we know, what does Thomas Edison know...
...with new forms of examinations. It gives one a sense of satisfaction, no doubt, to say off-hand "in what country orang-outangs live" and "where we get most of our sapphires", but it is impossible to believe that this is a test of ability to succeed in the Edison factory. What we want to know are those things that will help us live the better in whatever surroundings we find ourselves. We may have a sound critical judgment and ability to cope with difficult problems, yet appear complete idiots if examined under some of the so-called tests...
...these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they are on the wrong track; if they are trying to tell the undergraduate to read more good books, and talk more about serious things, and feel more at home, therefore among men who, if they cannot work for Mr. Edison, are considered educated gentlemen, then they are doing a good work...
Arthur E. Kennelly was born at Bombay, educated in England and at Pittsburg and Harvard, served for a time as electrical assistant to Thomas A. Edison, became professor of electrical engineering at the University in 1902, and is also director of electrical research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York. He expects to sail for France in June