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...Scientific School than to start in and raise an additional endowment and set up a "third college" with less study of mathematics and the classic languages. On the other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning...
...characterizing the Illustrated as a periodical whose ideal has been "popularity first," I do not believe I shall be incurring the enmity of its editors. Neither a special interest nor the publication of the best efforts of the board--or of the candidates!--have been the goal. Whether or not consciously formulated, there is little doubt that the guiding principle of the Illustrated has been to attract and please readers. The field has been a wide and an open one. That the Illustrated is ever better filling this field the present issue bears witness. From whatever angle one views...
...several other engineering schools in the country have been offered an opportunity to compete for $1000 in prizes for essays on highway construction. The subjects suggested cover a wide range, including: Factors which should govern the choice of types of pavements and roads and the materials used therein; an ideal paving program for a city of 25,000 people; economics of highway construction, and other related topics. The prizes are offered by the Barber Asphalt Paving Company to promote investigation of highway problems by engineering students and to encourage them to enter a field of work where there is great...
Barring the first book review, the November Monthly has taken an aggressive, straightforward tone fairly free from convention and happily from preciosity, Professor Francke's featured article on "Germany's Hope," that is, individual subordination to ideal advance of the state, would have conveyed its point with somewhat less iteration of detail. A writer in the Spectator recently countered this point of view by finding English salvation in the British quality of "you-be-damnedness." That Harvard has it in individuals is evident from the somewhat daring editorials. There, for instance, R. G. N. avers that better poetry...
...held Saturday morning, immediately following which, the general topic "What is the College for?" will be discussed from the following various viewpoints: "The Place of Athletics," by Principal Alfred E. Stearns, of Phillips Academy, Andover; "The Place of 'Student Activities'," by President Alexander Merklejohn, of Amherst College; and "The Ideal College" by Commissioner John H. Fenley of New York State...