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...many schemes, similar to this one, that are being broached are little more than pipe-dreams, for none of them has been actually tried. It remains for a women's college to take the lead by putting into practice the simplest and sanest device that has yet been suggested. Barnard College has adopted a "Special Honors Course", by which according to Dean Gildersleeve, a limited number of unusually able students will be permitted to study in their chosen field and at the same time be exempt from the larger part of the ordinary routine, prescribed courses and other impediments...
...method for combating the easy elective pick-a-pipe-course tendency of modern students is to require them to take enough work in any one subject so that they will really know something about it when they get through. Thereby he hopes to din into undergraduate minds the notion that they get an education by learning, not merely by acquiring so many credits; as the Harvard head puts it, "not only to offer dishes but to make the student eat out of them...
...scope and growth of the organization of which he is President. The last event on the program will be the election of group chairmen for next year. Refreshments will be served and a unique feature in the way of smoking will be introduced; each man will bring a cherry pipe and a supply of tobacco instead of the usual cigarettes...
...Mile Pipe Line Proposed...
...cooperation with the subsidiary of the Henry L. Doherty interests of Pittsburg. Transportation problems have somewhat embarrassed these operations since the field is accessible only from the east by way of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracalbo; but it is now proposed to lay a two hundred mile pipe line to the Carribean over a hitherto unfrequented pass which is over five thousand feet in elevation...