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November 13--Hou. D. T. Dickinson on "The Function of the Executive...
...School was held last night in the Faculty room in University hall. About two hundred and fifty members of the School were present and and a number of members of the Faculty. Dean Wright presided and after welcoming both the old and the new men, spoke briefly on the function of a university. He said it had three aims--the conservation, the transmission and the advancement of knowledge. The first of these is accomplished by museums, the second by the education of raw material, and the third by the promotion of research. The last of these is the part that...
...last two hundred years have accordingly given an enlarged significance to the secondary education. During those years the public secondary school has grown into the stature of an independent educational institution with a function of its own, and at the same time it has never ceased to be closely connected with the college. That is, the distinction between the two historical functions of secondary education, preparation for the college and preparation for life, once very marked, is disappearing. Whether it will wholly disappear within a generation or two can only be conjectured...
...wholly responsible for the education of our children. The individual home and the community are jointly responsible with the school for the education of every child. Nevertheless, the school must carry the largest share of this responsibility, because it is the institution which society charges with the sole function of education, while the home and other institutions of society have many other functions. It is therefore the business of the school to cast the more or less vague desires of the community respecting education into definite aims, and to find, organize and administer the means through which these aims...
Professor Shaler agrees with Professor James in rejecting the old belief that consciousness is but a function of the brain and that, therefore, without a material brain consciousness is impossible. He also believes in the newer thought that the mechanism of the brain does not directly produce conciousness, but is the instrument through which an infinite consciousness influences men's personalities and finds expression in their lives...