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...Scholarship Committee of New York University has circulated a questionnaire in the student body, the purpose of which is to discover the pedagogical methods which prove most satisfactory from the point of view of the undergraduate. It takes up the problem of the advisability of the final examinations, mode of presentation of courses, and the use of the library. The results of this questionary will be tabulated and presented to the faculty for their consideration. This general criticism of the methods of teaching, if it does nothing else, should at least have a stimulating effect on the existing system...
...Writer Shaw's courage (TIME, March 11) said: "The husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment 'because the inventor was both an American and a Jew.' His courage was such that his insinuations−although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians−were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
...students roll us their sleeves and do the entire job themselves. Unless undergraduate drama at Harvard is to prove a sterile toying with colored lights and elaborate stage sets some permanent avenue must be opened for those who would do more than follow through the trappings of the artistic mode...
...stood on vital questions of the day. Now Dartmouth's seniors have resorted to the ballot to discover what the dope on this college business really is. There must be a lot of satisfaction in knowing for certain what is what. No excuse then for not being in the mode. Besides, such decisions lend a feeling of solidarity and make for college spirit...
Even more prone than Mr. Clark to rate the value of college training on a dollar and cents basis, state authorities are sure to administer even the most carefully constructed statutes in a mode dangerous to liberal tradition. To regulate the opportunity for the study of the arts and sciences by financial consideration is to forget completely the cultural motive behind these studies. Were Mr. Clark's state regulation to operate, learning for its own sake might easily be pushed aside, and universities become mere factories to feed professional ranks. One would prefer to find the remedy for the conditions...