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...analogous to that of a William James in psychology, of an Agassiz in natural history or a Lowell in literature. Will authorities in other lines of business, specialists in oil and in steel, be engaged in time as the industrial development of the higher education goes on? For the perfect balance of the curriculum, the services of a professor of other forms of finance, a "wolf of Wall Street" experienced in stock manipulation and pool operation, might be enlisted...
...peculiar impressions, peculiar to one who shuns work as irksome and seeks a bed of roses; in fact, it is not the first letter of it kind and may therefore serve as documentary evidence of a consensus of opinion and furthermore, of a disinterested hope to see a perfect working of the system in the future as a real blessing. Tonjou...
...that some professors fail to establish any bond of common harmony whatsoever between themselves and the students who sit under them day after day throughout the year? The discipline of the class may be perfect, and the erudition and scholarly perfection of the professor unimpeachable, and yet there is a bond of common interest which is wanting, and which would mean success instead of failure with many an unprofitable hour spent in the lecture-room...
This deficiency of harmony, which is somewhat difficult to analyze, is more often than not the result of an unwarrantable omission on the part of the professor. Secure in his perfect knowledge of the subject, and confident of his ability as a disciplinarian, he neglects to treat his students as human beings and travellers on the same road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless...
...proposed scheme the pilots will be graded first on their landings and take-offs, the condition of their machines after the flight, and the economical use of gasoline, and secondly on their speed. Furthermore, it was stipulated that every pilot be required to fly 20 hours and make 25 perfect landings before the race. The trials for the pilots are to be held during the spring recess at the Army flying fields at Mineola, N. Y., under the supervision of the Army officials. There will be no restriction as to the number of men going to Mineola from the University...