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Leaving the scholastic standard alone, the ideal for the future must be to get at the large, average group, somehow or other to make them interested and hard-working in their fields. For this all that is suggested in Dean Hanford's report comes from Professor Munn's special committee of advisers,-that students on probation should be released from most of their tutorial work, in order that they may concentrate on doing better on their courses. This is no solution at all, merely a confession of failure...
Under the present scheme, a large group of students are given up as lost before they have a chance. And there appears to be nothing in Dean Hanford's report, or in the suggestions of Professor Munn's committee, which attempts to change their fate, nothing to solve what to us is the major problem of the college...
...faculty is represented by Delmar Leighton, '19, Dean of Freshmen, Elting E. Morison, '32, assistant dean, Robert S. Hillyer, '17, associate professor of English, J. B. Munn, '12, professor of English, W. J. Bender, '27, instructer of Government, and Charles T. Copeland, '82, professor emeritus...
...lectures wind his way but rather the names of men. So at nine he is off to Sever 19 to hear Professor Kittredge--no, not on Ethiopia, simply Shakespeare. At the same hour--as the mood moves him--he may go instead to Sever 11 to hear Professor Munn. At 10 o'clock he will listen to Professor Sorokin in Emerson 211. At 11 o'clock either he will hear a stimulating lecture by Professor Bixler in Emerson A or journey over to the Fogg Large Room to hear Professor Chase on Greek Art. At 12 o'clock the Vagabond...
...Among the supporters of the movement to secure subscriptions for the Memorial are Professors Lawrence J. Henderson '93, Robert S. Hillyer '17, and James B. Munn '12.--Ed. Note...