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...that he believes that the present tutorial system is without fault or flaw, quite the contrary. But the Vagabond wishes merely to voice a protest against the too great expansion of the tutorial field at the expense of the lecture system. And this is not--as the malicious will no doubt believe--because his business would decline if lectures were abolished; it is because he firmly believes that lecture courses are, if not more valuable than tutorial work, at least equal to it in educational benefit. Of course, the strong supporter will immediately exhibit the present Oxford system. With...
Tully's Reply Sirs: A letter appeared in a recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that...
...great deal has been said about the place of the Harvard man, graduate and undergraduate, in the fellowship of educated men. His is not exactly an enviable position in an ever increasing body of university and college members. And it is both his fault and not his deliberate goal. He has been accused and convicted of a colossal mannerism, which can best be described as a superiority complex. And be it said, that proud and vain glorious animal that he is, he has sometimes secretly reveled in the condemnation--a statement applicable almost exclusively to the undergraduate...
There seems to be little room left for anything but whole hearted approval after Mr. Giles has stated his objections to the present method of education and examination of the young. His criticism is well founded and his corrective suggestion would seem to obviate the fault. If there must be elementary survey courses, covering tremendous fields with the speed and inevitableness of an express train, then the journey should be conducted as intelligently as possible. To continue the figure, such courses would do well, to adopt Mr. Rich's plan in the cause of a better remembrance of the itinerary...
Captain C S. Hoagland of the visiting touch and go men, was reticent to a fault when interviewed last night. "Wah-Hoo-Wah", was his only reply when queried as to the alleged rumor that his team would appear on skills...