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...superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence. We are tending in America to make a fetish...
...objective of the football rules committee should be to reduce to a minimum, without emasculating the game, the possibility of physical injuries to the prayers. To this might be added the opening up of the play for the benefit of the spectators. These reforms the committee purposes to effect by direct technical prohibitions, and by making such rules as will encourage open plays and make concerted attack on one park of the line not a reasonable method of gaining ground...
...more practical form of charity than the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection is open to the members of our University community. None, perhaps, combines greater potential benefits to the recipients with less burden to the givers. Discarded clothing has a minimum value when it hangs neglected in a closet; yet in the possession of some needy person it may well give more service than its original owner received...
...almost too well known to require comment, and it is strange indeed that there are not eight men in the Senior and Junior classes who appreciate the responsibility which this fact lays upon them. The class rowing season lasts only six weeks, the drudgery is reduced to a minimum, and the work is exhilarating; yet two classes have not energy enough to man one eight-oared shell! If this humiliating indifference continues, we should like to see the class presidents take the matter in hand...
...particular, the minimum elementary work, which should be done by a student anticipating medicine as a profession, should include first, a good reading knowledge of French and German. As an international subject of study, in which investigation is being carried on in foreign countries and especially in France and Germany, medicine requires a general knowledge of these foreign languages. It is not necessary to specialize in these, but the acquisition of a general reading knowledge enabling one to read scientific works, or to study in Europe, proves invaluable to the best physician. Secondly, in the scientific field, it lies entirely...