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...early to criticise. The proof of a ruling is in its application. This experiment is an attempt to make the senior feel his own responsibility. Perhaps it will solve for Dartmouth the difficult problem of balancing utter freedom with necessary restraint...
...important educational problem, this question cannot fail to interest us. Is it a pleasant outlook when pretty falsehoods--just because they are pretty--must be fed to minds not yet trained to sift out truth? The impressions received in childhood are difficult to eradicate; truth, when it does force its way through a barrier of early prejudice brings with it all the attendant dangers of disillusionment. Furthermore, an enduring faith in one's country is founded not on ignorance of its shortcomings but on an appreciation of the counterbalancing merits. The sconer this is recognized in our elementary history classes...
...educators the fact will, we trust, be demonstrated that music as an aid to learning should not be confined solely to kindergartens. Furthermore, the success of the History 32 experiment will undoubtedly lead to innovations in other college courses which may eventually go far to solve our present problem of humanizing the large courses...
...greeted the new Rank List, have come certain justifiable complaints. The most serious is heard among members of the Engineering School, whose names are not included in the ranking. This at once raises the question of the status of the Engineering School in relation to the College, a problem with which Yale has been struggling for years. Yale, with the task of uniting two separate institutions, the College and Sheffield Scientific School, has found the apparent solution in a Common Freshman Year...
...Harvard the difficulty is less serious. Our problem is simply to keep the new school which is growing up from breaking off and becoming distinct from the College. Men do not come to the Engineering School for its own sake; they come to Harvard to study engineering. It is therefore imperative that the distinction between the two schools should be kept at a minimum. At present the Freshman Year, as at Yale, is supposedly common to both schools--the men are assigned to the same dormitories; English A is required for both; and in other ways the privileges and requirements...