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What then, is the Harvard type? Needless to say, the formula is complex, but perhaps the many elements do combine to form something tangible. There are, I might say, two types with a common characteristic. There is the club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society...
...time, even the personal element entered into what at first appeared to be an entirely impersonal matter, and now we know what to expect when certain classmates begin to talk. So do the professors, and many are the satirical and harsh comments that fall from their contemptuous lips. They lose no opportunity to inform us that only 250 of us will be allowed to return next September...
...superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff degrees. To keep pace with other universities, Yale must be more than a home of sweetness and light, more than a school of scientific devotees. On the other side of the question, there must be more attention to the undergraduate element through changes in policy brought about by breaking down the rigidity of the departmental system...
...second type of attack is that of the dissenter who attaches to his Jacobinism a fervent howl for "liberal education." He proposes free choice in his selection of courses, with no bustles on this "lady" of ours. Herein there are several points to consider on both sides. The conservative element, if we waive any apprehensions of the undergraduates' tendency to "ride," through colleges, has more to justify the plan of adherence to specific requirements than has the vociferous liberal's plea for selection. In the first place, the degree must mean something. We don't want candidates at graduation presented...
Compulsory military training at subsidized colleges has long oppressed students, yet it was not until very recently that investigation proved that the element of compulsion was only a militaristic myth. In institutions of learning subsidized under the Morrill land-grant act, the law requires that "the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and in including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." Legal advice indisputably shows that the law, therefore, requires only that military training be offered...