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Much of this caustic comment can of course be ascribed to the reasonably immature state of development at which most of those replying have arrived. It is one of the prerogatives of youth to find fault with what fills the immediate horizon, and to ridicule all that has been found valuable in the past. Only by some such inscrutable order of things can progress be made and the world kept from complete stagnation. A system of this sort is not injurious, moreover, because young reformers are as a rule mercifully preserved from a sight of their own more or less...
...speech that is at once deft and forcible. He knows how to talk in terms of the theatre--and that is not to talk too much. The subtlety of the dramatist is never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind...
Erratic fielding was one of the chief reasons for the to 2 victory of the Crimson over Cornell last year, and judging from the form that Cornell has shown this year, in making but one error against Dartmouth and Princeton this fault is the longer present. Cornell's defeats have come, without an exception, from strong teams, so its record is better than its percentage of victories
...concentration and distribution scheme. In theory, the ideal of a balanced general knowledge of the most important subjects with a deeper, more specialized knowledge of one is extremely good. And if, for reasons which might be obviated more easily than a substitute ideal discovered, the practical application is at fault, the ideal itself need not be discarded. Rather should efforts be turned toward preventing the first-year man from swamping himself with heavy general courses, which seem to bring disaster. One must recognize, of course, that the introductory courses have to come before any specialization; and if only one general...
...pans than for silence, for only out of a medley of criticisms can emerge a sound policy of education. And as was vaguely suggested, it is chiefly in the lack of a national policy of a national system that the educational machinery of the country is at fault...