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...likely either to become so bewildered as to gain practically no knowledge, or to specialize so narrowly as to drive forth ignorance only in one field. The innovation of the Science Symposiums, the second of which will be held tonight, is an undoubted aid in solving the problem. By bringing all the sciences into intimate relation, by reconciling astronomy, biology, and philosophy to the march of "Eternal Harmony," over-specialization in one is necessarily checked and put in its place. And along with the broadening of the view, one can hear professors whose courses do not lie in a certain...
...prove to have the same values as the Science Symposiums. The lectures given last year on the four great epic poets were of this nature, and their popularity among the undergraduate body attests the need for them which was felt. Extra-curriculum lectures will go far toward solving the problem of a host of students who wish to be more than specialists in "eighteenth century literature" or "money and banking...
...Farm Problem. The insurgents will strongly advocate various forms of wheat-relief to be carried out more or less at Government expense. The regular Republicans believe little can be done except to let the situation right itself, but will probably have to make some gesture of helpfulness. The Democrats will advocate repeal of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and entrance into the League of Nations, as relief measures-without expecting either to come about...
...other hand, by requiring a man before graduating to pass a general examination in American government which he would take sometime during his college career, the problem could be more easily solved. This plan would demand no dark and foreboding compulsory course to be staggered through but merely a general knowledge of a subject which every American citizen cannot know too well. We would thus be taking another step forward in the promotion of better citizenship. J. B. Squies...
...Yale the situation is slightly complicated. President Angell attempted to make the Student Council take up the problem of undergraduate drinking, but his maneuver met with unfortunate results. In addressing the freshman class he announced that expulsion would follow the defection of any violation of the rule forbidding liquor in university buildings, and incidentally of the Volstead law. This decisive utterance puts the issue clearly, and no future offender will have just cause for complaint. Indeed, it would seem that the only way in which the collegiate public can be wooed from violating an unpopular ordinance will be by unhesitating...