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...public enterprise which is economically warranted must reflect in some direction the benefit which accrues thereby. And if we could only find that element in the public economy which reflects the benefit, and use that, and that only, as the basis of taxation, it seems that a large part of our tax difficulties might disappear. Let us examine, then, the elements in the public economy...
Under present conditions with so much stress on education, it is a healthy sign that experimental work in that field is receiving recognition. The training of the mind is an essential element in modern life, and attention must not be given exclusively to the actual mechanics of educating. The problems of how and why are every bit as important and it is the answer to the questions that arise in the latter connection with which the School of Education is concerned. Any assistance that is given to help to accomplish this aim is a well directed and intelligent...
Those who are familiar with teaching conditions in the secondary schools of this country are impressed with the oft-noted inability of new teachers to deal with actual teaching problems as presented by classroom experience? The art of successful teaching requires the knack of dealing with the human element just as much as it necessitates mental capability. In teaching, as in everything else, experience brings ultimate perfection, and often the early years of a teacher's career may be mainly spent in setting accustomed to handling classes...
...affords an absorbing pastime for a free afternoon but is too complicated for treatment here. At any rate the whole situation boils down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large majority of their meals in the Houses or lose money. This unavoidable element of compulsion is in itself contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and is bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference as something almost unique in American education...
...much point in giving them the protective tariff of a flat charge per week. While they are still in the infant industry class protection in the form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing...