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...CRIMSON.- A recent description before the Historical Society, of the "machinery" by which Mr. H. H. Bancroft carries on his investigation into the material for the history of the Pacific coast, suggests to me the application of some of the details of Mr. Bancroft's methods in the proposed plan for making and indexing newspaper cuttings according to topics. Mr. Bancroft, it is said, makes use of innumerable small paper bags, indexed by topics, and filed alphabetically, in which to store the vast mass of abstracts and quotations from books and manuscripts which he designs to use later...
...order to bring the matter into some practical shape I would urge upon the Finance Club and Historical Society, as including men in their number who would be most likely to be interested in making these slips, to take the initiative and give the plan a trial. Both these clubs also contain the younger and more energetic of the instructors in their departments among their members. Will not the clubs, therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive...
...importance as an adjunct in the instruction of some of the courses in which the work is largely arranged by topics, for the instructors in these courses to see to it directly that all notable newspaper articles illustrating their subjects be brought within reach of their pupils by this plan. I would incidentally suggest that a selection of topics from among those suggested to forensic writers, might form a basis on which to start in choosing topics for slips. It might be of practical benefit in the several theme and thesis courses also, to prepare a bag for slips...
...would say to the writer of the communication in "Newspaper Clippings," published this morning, that the authorities are considering some plan for carrying out this important scheme, which has been advocated by several correspondents in our columns, of cutting out, and indexing newspaper articles. President Eliot, who is now on a trip south, intends to visit Johns Hopkins University, and study the methods in vogue there, with the idea of putting some such plan into operation at Harvard...
...Boston Herald says that the Brown University four is rowing 18,000 strokes daily on the machines. At thirty strokes a minute this would make ten hours steady work per day. Can it be that Brown has adopted President Eliot's "University" plan, and is turning out one-sided specialists instead of men with a liberal education? The newspaper which says that specialization is "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning" at Harvard, should look into this affair at Brown...