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...President's "at homes", the University Teas, and the afternoons which almost all Professors keep, once a week, for students, offer ample opportunity for undergraduates to become acquainted with members of the Faculty. As a matter of fact there are some students who take advantage of these privileges, and profit greatly thereby. The recognition of the opportunity, however, usually comes fairly late in an undergraduate's life, and there are many who, when they complete their college course are utterly oblivious of the fact that they are missing anything. Obviously, there is need for stimulating the undergraduate desire for contact...
...would also be possible to eliminate some courses that exist purely for the purpose of disseminating information and nothing else, and a great many lectures whose purpose is avowedly that. Students would profit if they would devote the time to reading, that they they would otherwise spend in lectures. Professors and all instructors would benefit greatly, for under the present situation members of the faculty have to cut their own work down to an absolute minimum. How many professors except when on Sabbatical leave, find time to prepare a book for publication...
...groups of the rank list over fifteen percent better than the Z's. Yet the raw, crude brain was never alphabetically alloted. The system creates alphabetical cliques. Instead of friendships formed by ties of similar tastes, lecture room friendships are made among men by letters. The only man to profit by alphabetical seating is the monitor; for the rest it is an abridging of the evolutionary right to freedom of selection. The German generals card-indexed the War; shall Harvard alphabetize instruction...
...which the advantage to foreign nations of lower labor costs may be offset, is a reduction of the insurance rate below that which obtains in other countries. A huge combination of private companies might conceivably be able to insure at lower rates, and still make a profit; but an easier method of securing inexpensive insurance would be to have the government provide it at cost, a thing which our experience with war-time life insurance for the army and navy shows quite feasible...
...likely, however, that the thing will go farther. The tired business man has his "Follies", the weary delegate his Ballet, and the rest of us may profit by their example. Our business men could perhaps be lured to the White House by a symphony concert, the House of Lords may soon be opening its deliberations with a performance of "The Mikado", and all political speeches made in the style of Artemus Ward. Before long statesmanship will consist in perpetual conferring at attractively situated resorts. The nine Muses bid fair to make a complete conquest of the seven great Powers...