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...weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body. His lighting method also enabled him to see that a cut nerve cannot be spliced and made to function again. New nerve material must grow out from the root, repair the damage...
...Students are not people because they do not function as people should. They are not influential enough either in the management of their own collegiate affairs or in the determination of public opinion and public policies. If students are to be influential members of their civic communities after their graduation, they must learn to manage their own affairs as college students." ? President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College...
...ability for college candidates have met with considerable success, as the popularity of the New Entrance Plan and the Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate. The tendency has been away from the pedantic checking-up of mere factual knowledge, in favor of emphasis on the fundamental qualities which it is the function of colleges to develop...
President MacCracken of Vassar notes the same tendency--every reform looking toward increased independence on the part of the students. He urges an even greater degree of management of their own affairs so that they may function "as people should." And it is his testimony, as well as that of President Aydelotte, that the student response under proper guidance is characterized by "self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." Like views have recently been expressed by Dean Gauss at Princeton. There are signs that our colleges and universities are moving to a higher plane of intellectual life. Those who have been...
...large, complicated and slow-moving mechanism. Every two years fresh fires have to be started in its cold boilers. Its 531 cogs have to be adjusted into place. The accumulated gases of politics have to be blown out of its chambers. Only after these preliminaries can it proceed to function as the Constitution intends...