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...able to pay the full cost of a college education should be made to do so. The article goes on to say that "the exact measure of this contribution would be difficult to determine, but some notion of it may be gained at any great collegiate function that brings the parents and friends of college boys into the open together and enables them to display simultaneously their automotive opulence." The "Quadwrangler" in the Transcript of April 30 comments on this proposal favorably, but regards the whole project as "altogether too ideal...
...American Intelligence Service attained such a high order of excellence during the war. General Nolen managed this department so efficiently that General Mangin of the French army remarked that "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American Staff to learn to function properly, under modern conditions...
...place of the old series of four appointed committees whose personnel was without responsibility's the members, the supervision of the club will be henceforth in the hands of five undergraduates who are responsible to the men who elected them. This new system with its specialization and concentration of function is sure to make the student administration much more efficient...
Brooks House performs a double function in the University. First, by social welfare work, it attempts to bring the undergraduate into close contact with the problems of industrial life. The student who teaches a group of illiterate immigrants gains some idea of the trials and hardships undergone by others less fortunate than himself. The pupils, on the other hand, learn that the "aristocrats" from college are just as human as themselves...
...Chapin's prize winning essay, "Education and College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority...