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...country and the life of restless activity which is about us in every class of society, are hardly conducive to quiet scholarly labor. But there must be special internal reasons affecting the case at Harvard. A CRIMSON editorial has pointed out the desirability of making a change in the method and time of election to Phi Beta Kappa. If the requirements for membership were defined, and if the terms of election were arranged so that the best scholars could make the society earlier in their course, there is no doubt but that the members, and through them, scholarship in general...
...meet the objection, that the cost of compensating such lecturers would be too great, the competitors for the prize are invited to consider the German method of compensating the lecturer. That method is to pay a small, fixed sum to each lecturer, which is called a viaticum, and to give the lecturer very small lecture fees from each of his many hearers, the same to be the sole compensation of the lecturer. Thus there is very little more cost for the maintenance of a lecturer with 1000 hearers, than for the maintenance of a lecturer who had ten to twenty...
...argument in favor of the honor system in conducting examinations seems to me to be based upon a mistaken view of the object of the present method of supervision by proctors. If the precise object of supervising written examinations is that of inculcating a sense of honor in the participants, there may be something said for banishing the proctor; and we may even welcome the evidence, which is doubtless trustworthy, that in some colleges where cheating has been rife and where there has been practically no public sentiment against it, the introduction of the honor system has apparently brought...
...following are the awards of Bowdoin Prizes for graduates: three prizes of $200 each to Emory Leon Chaffee 4G., of Somerville, for a dissertation entitled "A New Method of Impact Excitation of Undamped Electric Oscillations and their Analysis by Means of Braun Tube Oscillographs"; Sergius Morgulis 2G., of Balta, Russia, for a dissertation entitled "Inanition: Experiments and Reflections"; Albert Richard Chandler 2G., of Norwich, Conn., for a dissertation entitled "The Tragic Appeal of the Dramas of Sophocles...
...there are who will not admit that the honor System is a moral advance on the present method of proctor supervision. The reason that it has not been universally adopted is because many consider it too Utopian an advance, too impracticable for the present state of undergraduate morals; it is, say its opponents, a system which puts too much strain on the student; the average man is not yet fit to bear the responsibility. Still, they admit its value in theory. Therefore, being, as it is, an advance on an ancient and artificial scheme to prevent cheating, it should immediately...