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...when one day shows a program in which major parts are rivalled by non-athletic competitions, the ideal of diversified interests, each with its proper emphasis, seems decidedly nearer...
Present plans are to build in this country a rigid dirigible of the Schütte Lanz type. Helium will be used as the elevating gas, because it is non-inflammable. The ship will carry 50 passengers, and is scheduled to leave New York at six in the morning and arrive in Chicago early next morning, the passengers sleeping en route. The Government is to give full co-operation because of the military advantage of developing commercial aviation in this country...
Talk has been current lately as to what share the alumni should have in the direction of a university. An article in the last Graduates Magazine traced "the growth of non-resident government" at Harvard, while a recent contributor to the New Republic denounced the tendency of graduates to exert too much unintelligent influence over an institution's affairs, which they are able to control on account of their financial responsibilities. Such charges are of course ill-considered: if any group of men is fitted, both by character and by first-hand knowledge, to serve a university...
Talk of doing away with compulsory attendance of classes is a source of current speculation, and a topic likely to be heard more frequently as time goes on. Meanwhile, an interesting sidelight on its possibilities is to be seen in the number of non-course lectures being given in the University in the afternoons and evenings, and the undergraduate attendance at them...
...tends to jet each man shift for himself. Furthermore, there are no longer the convenient though sometimes irksome rules of conduct which made his way easier than he suspected. To take the place of these, various systems of voluntary advice have been invented, each more or less helpful, but non entirely adequate. The Student Advisory Committee, in particular, with its individual adviser appointed for each Freshman, is able to give much help in an intimate and varied...