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...higher courses are likely to receive it, but it does not filter down to the ordinary undergraduate. The advisor system has usually failed to provide it. Other colleges have tried the plan of holding departmental smokers where the teachers can talk informally with their students and where the flow of ideas is unrestricted. This, of course, offers only an opening, which he must follow...
Samuel Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
...recent years, however, there has been some flow in the opposite direction. Not only have many Oriental students come to American universities, especially for technical education, but European students have also visited our shores in greater numbers. One important effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student...
...concentrated spirit of culture. Harvard no longer remains "corked up at work." Perhaps the tube might also be termed a supply-pipe, which conducts into the otherwise closed academic corporation the culture of Boston; and in view of the recent large vote for license in the metropolis, the flow still promises to be as much into Cambridge as out of it. Formerly, Mr. Kline tells us, the student would sit down "in moments of depression and be relieved of his sorrow in a poem or a story for the Illustrated." Does he not still give scope to his feelings...
...Union tonight new students will be given some insight into the spirit which pervades the multifarious activities of the University. This is a season of advice; perhaps at no other period of life does advice flow so freely as in the first few days of college. Some of it is good, and much is bad or indifferent. But that which will be offered by enthusiastic-Poloniuses tonight is the beet obtainable. And every Freshman with a mind or a should should be on hand...