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...several universities as exchange professor. He will leave here about the twenty-eighth of this month and will go first to Colorado College and then to Grinnell, Knox, and Beloit. At each of these colleges he will lecture three times a week on the general subject of the "Problem of Duty," and will also lecture publicly on "Types of English Poetry...
...distribution of wealth, as well as in the production of wealth. We can already produce far more efficiently--poorly as we may do it still--than we can see the product safely, and finally into the hands of him to whom it justly belongs. The latter phase of the problem would certainly seem to be worth careful, constructive, and earnest attention. Moreover, it could hardly fail to increase production at the same time that it secured juster distribution of the results...
...infrequently, as every student of economics can testify, certain phases of an economic problem may be obscure. The student may find himself in doubt and uncertainty on some economic subject. The bi-weekly meeting of such a society as proposed would afford a valuable opportunity for the solution of the difficulty. But the society should appeal and prove of interest and help not only to one who finds a vital attraction in the study of economics, not alone to the student who is concerned merely because he is enrolled in an elementary course; but also to all interested...
...last night. He expressed his absolute conviction that the Senior dormitories present the most obvious means for the democratization of Harvard; and democracy, he declared, is a primer requisite if Harvard is to be known from coast to coast as the great national university of the country. The great problem that the dormitories have solved is how to bring together the three types of men in the University, the complacent, provincial, and conscious, private school man, the reticent middle-class man, and the struggling, and sometimes bitter man, who works his way through college. The dormitory plan offers that opportunity...
...requesting of them their views on a very important question, namely, the value of a college training in preparation for the work of after life. The investigator who is studying this question for the Outlook has at least done more than others, who have attempted to examine the same problem, by reverting to the original courses of information to secure material for his thesis. Generally, it is no exaggeration to say, the investigators accept hearsay evidence or base their statements on the actions of a few students seen sowing their wild oats in the unfertile fields of artificial light...