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Practice for the men picked will be held each week, the object being to obtain coordinated power, which has been noticeably lacking in past years...
...attention of newspapers was largely centered on the question whether Commander Lansdowne had been ordered to take the flight in spite of his protest. Official correspondence showed that it had been ordered in July, but that Commander Lansdowne had objected that midsummer was a thunderstorm period and had asked that it be postponed until September. Later he recommended that it take place during the second week of September. Instead it was ordered in the first week of the month. To this order he did not object. The purpose of setting the date for the flight...
...Harvard club, heard discussed a tentative plan of the Rhodes trustees to abandon the present method of selecting two scholars every three years from each state and substituting a method whereby the quota would be allotted from six to eight districts into which the country would be divided. The object: a more representative group of students. Details of the plan were not published, nor were the dinner speeches of President Frank P. Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, U. S. secretary of the trust, and Sir Philip Kerr, British secretary. From London, however, came a definite report: the Rhodes trust has increased...
...student need not know, but he must know that part of the subject contained in the book. When he finishes the course he will have a satisfying feeling of having acquired something and of having worked hard to get it. No attempt is made to amuse the students; the object is to make them think...
...important truths about students, professors, and the nature of the relation between the two. Most of the critical reviews show evidence of sincerity on the part of the students in the task they set for themselves in coming to college. In every course they sought a certain object. Where they found it most abundantly, they lavished their praise; where they gleaned in vain, they confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought was stimulation--the awakening of the principle of growth within themselves. Their interest did not bud spontaneously. Be the course what it might, they required more than bare facts...