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...collection of signed wood-engravings by Timothy Cole is now on exhibition at the Dunster House Bookshop. The subjects are for the most part from Italian and Spanish masters, including Velasquez, Murillo, Raphael, and Glorlone. Cole is probably the greatest master of his particular art in the world. Faithful, reproduction of detail, accompanied by an unusual beauty and softness of tone, is the outstanding characteristic of his work. The exhibit will last a month...
...well as a clinic for the study of children. In effect, it will be a reorganization and enlargement of the courses in education hitherto given by a division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The school, however, will have a separate faculty, and will offer the degrees of master and doctor upon the recommendation of this faculty...
Before 1900 Harvard was the unchallenged master of the cinder-path. Since then Cornell, closely followed by Pennsylvania, has led the way. Saturday's victory was the first Harvard challenge in recent years to the Ithacan supremacy. If every undergraduate with track experience will assist in this advance by reporting for track and field events, then the University may well expect to see her colors in the fore once again at the Intercollegiate games...
Dissatisfaction with the system of secondary school education in this country has long been smoldering, and those who seek a more progressive policy will find an able spokesman in Dr. Mather Abbott, head-master of the Lawrenceville School, whose statements appear in another page of the CRIMSON. Dr. Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats...
...type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages more easily than mathematics, and therefore recommends early specialization, he does not provide for the man whose mind is not adapted to book-learning...