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...bitter field of Antietam seems far removed from a generation to which Chateau Thierry is already history. The presentation yesterday of the portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Law School pays a just tribute to a man who has filled the years between these milestones with quiet judgment. Graduated from Harvard with the class of 1861, the present Justice of the Supreme Court left academic Boston, to be wounded three times in the Civil War. Closing his service on the staff of General Wright, he began a law practice through which he acquired a reputation that finally placed...
Twenty-six out of thirty-one university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. That statement was made last week by a prominent dry before the Judiciary Committee of the Bouse of Representatives. What does it prove? With due respect for the judgment or those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News, through its questionnaire, proposes to have a look at the facts...
...general, written reports offer a fairer basis for judgment of the student's ability than such devices as hour examinations, but where such reports are allowed to degenerate into mere compilations of source material, their constructive value to the student is dubious...
...Naval armaments is in full swing. By such a gross misstatement of the strength of the country's Navy many well-meaning persons would feel that material reduction should be effected. By a proper knowledge of the actual strength of the Navy a more mature and reasonable judgment could be formed by these same persons. Again, persons in many countries read TIME. These, unless they be better posted as to our Naval forces than most of our citizens are, would like wise draw erroneous conclusions. Finally, for the sake of accuracy it should be an established policy with...
November Hours are justifiable on the grounds that they afford the student an opportunity to see what is expected of him and also they permit the instructor to form some basis of judgment as to the ability of those in his course. Two sets of hour examinations during a time when studying is much more intent are justifiable on neither one of these accounts. The bulk of this unnecessary tedium is still in a very imminent future, but there is yet time to discard these abuses and to arrive at some more efficient and equitable arrangement of the second semester...