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...best criterion of intellectual achievement. He takes issue upon other points but fails to consider the real reason that led to the suggestion. Believing that the Phi Beta Kappa could be of greater service to the University by encouraging good scholarship as well as rewarding it we brought forth the proposal that a few men be elected on the basis of their first year record. Thereby it was thought that many who now devote themselves to other fields might be started on the road of scholastic attainment. Many would be called, but, as at present, only the few would...
...false lines will snap with a loud whang and the fun will be seen to burst forth. Games at tiddletywinks on fly paper have been arranged between the Whistle, the Opera, and the other clubs. At a seasonable time swift blacks will slip wholesome clams amongst the avid throng...
President Eliot has recently written a book entitled "The Conflict between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy," in which he has set forth some of his views on the subject. "Collectivism values highly social rights, objects to an individual initiative which does mischief when left free, holds that the interest of the many should override the interests of the individual when two interests conflict." In short, what President Eliot means by Collectivism, is more the thoughtful social organization restricting the individual to the common good, including...
...impartially. The logical result of this division of interest is a struggle between the boards for the comparatively small patronage of the College. Neither of the two receives quite enough material to fill its issues without the addition of systematic editorial padding. Brilliant stories, poems, and articles flash forth occasionally from both papers; but their effect is lessened by the mediocre matter which predominates. The natural remedy, suggested by the case itself, is a consolidation of the two staffs into one organization. The advantages of this step are obvious. A single magazine would control the whole field of college literary...
...facts as they really stand. So the research student, if he expects to carry on his work successfully, must himself have formed imaginative ideas of what he is going to find drawn from the study of local conditions. He must have questions ready, in order to draw forth the facts which really exist. As an example, in the whole municipal government of England theory and fact are widely separated. We generally believe and the English public believes also that city government in England is efficient because it is in the control of the best men elected by the people...