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Universities are created to educate. But few universities can afford to be too particular about their standards of education until they have expanded to profitable size. For this purpose they must establish a reputation and popularity among young people; no better means exists than to have successful, famed football teams for a number of years. Last week University of Notre Dame (founded 1842) which has had pre-eminent football teams for a decade, announced a new standard of scholarship: to enter, high-school students must have stood in the first scholastic two-thirds of their classes; to be graduated, Notre...
...enable the instructor to reduce the number of his tutees without diminishing his income requires a large sum of money. But the objection does not invalidate the suggestion. The University obtained $15,000,000 to establish a physical basis for the tutorial system. It remains now for the authorities to eliminate the inconsistencies...
...done the proper thing. The decision follows logically on the agreement made last year granting admission to those who were then Sophomores and Freshmen. Although it is stated that Engineering School students will not necessarily be admitted every year, it is hoped that their inclusion this year will establish a precedent...
...seems to me that the most useful and fitting plan of all would be to establish a group of scholarships and fellowships to meet the increase in living expenses which the House Plan has brought about. There are numerous precedents for such action, the Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials...
...second; and perhaps more valid objection, is the inadvisability of introducing the subject into the secondary school curriculum. Culture, as a vocation, has been greatly, and justly, ridiculed. But it is still a very desirable attribute. It lies entirely within the province of the preparatory school to establish a ground work for culture. If college is to continue as an educational and not a vocational institution, the schools must also, for the college is dependent upon them...