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...England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should be to retain the strong points of what we already have, and combine them in so far as possible with the benefits to be derived from the English system. The Alumni Bulletin...
...laboratory. I wished to add Mr. Alexander Agassiz to this committee but he plead his absorbing interest in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. After a time, a beginning having been made, Mr. Agassiz joined us and represented the need of a laboratory to Mr. Coolidge I shall never forget the joyous note in which Mr. Agassiz told me that Mr. Coolidge had agreed to give a building with mechanical equipment on condition that $75,000 should be raised as an endowment fund...
...consideration. His central idea is one with which some of us certainly will agree: that the age in which we live is so intensely practical that few people have any thought to waste on true education. We are so busy learning how to be practical specialists that we utterly forget such minor acquisitions as intellectual power, mental development and "the art of living." Mr. Morrison implies another great truth--the only knowledge really worth anything is that which we acquire by our own efforts. That which is supplied to us gratis in tabloid form will ever be found wanting when...
...thing they may be sure: Yale at New Haven is going to present a far different team from Yale at Princeton. Comparative scores do not admit the all-important element of psychology, especially the influence of playing on the home field. Never was the old lesson truer than now--forget comparative scores, don't be overconfident...
...great good little known. This Commission was appointed by the Corporation of the University when the resources of the Medical School were placed at the disposal of the doctors in charge during the epidemic of 1916. In spite of the seriousness of that epidemic we are apt to forget the dangers, even the existence, of the disease at present. Figures show that in Massachusetts during the first nine months of 1920 there have been over six times as many cases as during all last year. So little is known about the disease that its mere presence must be dangerous...