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Despite the wide divergence in their demands, the radical and the reactionary desire the same thing. They insist that the teacher become a propagandist and that the college become a school for a particular theory. Time was when such schools existed and students traveled from one to the other to get a universal point of view. They were the schools of Greece and of the middle Ages. We flatter ourselves that we have advanced in many thing, among them--education. But it is beside the point to question whether this is a better or worse system. The fact remains that...
...Deegen is now on a tour of the East, and is being sent by the War Risk Bureau to explain and doubtful features of the Act. In the course of his talk tomorrow, he will be glad to answer questions on government insurance, and will help adjust any particular difficulties, concerning allotments, allowances, compensation, and insurance, which Harvard ex-service men may have...
...case, and cannot be allowed to go unanswered. "This court", says Mr. Leach, "has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court reasoned in no such way. If it had, it would have said in effect, that this is a government...
...primary reasons for an examination in any subject is, or should be, that it affords a means of testing a student's comprehensive knowledge and showing him his weakness in that particular line of work. As the examination system is carried on now, however, a great part of this aim is lost. Merely the marks received in an examination are announced with no comment on the individual's work; his errors are not pointed out; and the reasons for the mark, which every man has a right to know on his own paper, remain unknown...
Copies of Reuschenbuch's "Social principles of Jesus" will be distributed. With this book as a text Dr. Leslie purposes to have an informal discussion of opinions on religious matters, in particular the application of Christianity to modern day problems. Although the meetings are intended primarily for Freshmen, all members of the University are invited to be present...