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...report goes on to point out that in-addition to furnishing the best possible stimulus for realizing the ideal of athletics for all, the plan of subdivision would not interfere with the club system. The clubs would continue to draw together men of kindred interests and would cut across colleges, just as they now cut across dormitories. Moreover, it would not interfere with the present academic system, but would be simply a new residential arrangement for improving the social side of education and promoting better understanding between diverse groups of students...
...ideal environment for the culturally rounded growth of the individual is the small group, and the most natural union of members is not that of men on the same level, as in the present division in classes, but of undergraduates at varying stages of development...
...Commerce Commission became vacant. To fill it the President turned to the South. Dozens of southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. But the ideal Southerner refused the chair...
...ideal arrangement would provide reading-room capacity equal to allowing the whole student body to be in the reading rooms at one time. So it was from the building of Austin Hall down to 1891-1892. So it was in Dean Ames's plan of Langdell Hall. At the very least there ought to be room for half of the student body at any one time, and plans should be made for reading-room space for all students. Work in the reading rooms is an essential part of the system. Unless all students are able to have continuous access...
These cases simply represent the fullfilment of the ideal of education of the Freshman who denounced his professor for a long list of assigned reading on the ground that it was the professor's duty to do the reading himself and report its content to the class. A fact in the notebook is worth two in the head is the watchword of the educational mechanist. And there is of course great truth in the principle for facts in the notebook are convenient when approaching examination prescribes review, and they don't get in the way afterward...