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...annually, estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President- without mentioning any names-as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan. Dr. MacDonald, who had already measured scores of Representatives and Senators in the 62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue to lead in this comparative anthropology...
Meteorologist William H. Hoover was recalled from a solar observatory in the Argentine to travel to Mt. Brukkaros in Southwest Africa where Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for the Institution's first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable...
...particular more use might be made of theses, long reports calculated to test undergraduate grasp of particular problems. The conditions under which a thesis is written, sufficiency of time and availability of reference material, are ideal for the production of an adequate piece of work. The report of substantial length furnishes what the examination often lacks: an opportunity for original thinking. Already, candidates for distinction are required to submit a capable thesis before receiving their honors. And the research methods of graduate work are simply an elaboration of the same system...
...ideal is that education may be free from pedantry, that the facts necessary for scholarly reputation in a subject be not forced upon the casual student caring only for its cosmic position, at the expense of an understanding of its scope and color. All students, save those with professional intent are casual as compared with their instructors; wherefore the instructor must assume two distinct beings, the scholar and the teacher. In the one he must be thorough systematic; in the other he must own a genius for stepping outside of himself to correctly apportion, emphasize, and attract...
There certainly could be no none better fitted to write such a book. Dr. Davison has had rich experience in instilling the ideals of the best music into the minds of youth. In the latter part of the book he takes up specifically the problem of college glee clubs. It is surprising that any defence of the system which he has so well inaugurated here should be necessary. But of any pioneer undertaking, no matter how praiseworthy, there is criticism. The success which has crowned his efforts to carry out his belief has, however, stilled all real objection. His belief...