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...interpret and correlate the material presented in the reading and bi-weekly lectures, optional sectional meetings will be held on Saturdays. These meetings will deal with the week's reading and answer questions of a general nature. It is to the credit of Professor Matthiessen that he disdains frequent quizzes and hour exams, for though they might raise the level of future knowledge in the course, they would destroy the freedom now offered to the student. The purpose of the Saturday classes, then, is not to discipline a man's work, but to better his grasp of the subject...
...number of notable defects in this course reaches an all-time high. Laboratory sessions constantly extend over the three-hour period. Quizzes given both in labs and in section meetings are long and unnecessarily frequent. The twice-weekly check-up brings the course down to prep-school level. Section meetings held once a week consist of a twenty minute quiz and a half-hour discussion. Poorly conducted as a rule, they are dull and profitless...
...gatro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body. The usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land. They are no more frequent in colleges than in institutions, hotels, and restaurants that serve food to large numbers of people. They are more striking, however, because in the college, all cases come to the attention of the authorities, whereas restaurant and hotel guests scatter and seldom report their illness...
Actually Harvard puts more emphasis on sanitary conditions in its kitchens than any similar institution. Care is taken not only to guard the food itself, by buying from firms of known repute and subjecting the purchases to frequent chemical analyses to prove their worth, but also the staff mit to regular examinations. Yet even the most who cook and serve in the halls are made to sub-modern scientific precautions have failed to protect the University at all times, and infections like the present one have inevitably crept...
...more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...