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...thorough knowledge of one or two. But in the latter direction. Yale goes even farther. Certain courses are considered properly introductory to certain others, and the new plan requires a student to take some of the advanced in addition to the elementary. Thus there is a direct compulsion to progress beyond the surface of a subject...
...which will be an incentive to deeper study, without the odium of a compulsion. Already, courses here are classified in three grades: "Primarily for undergraduates"; "For undergraduates and graduates"; and "Primarily for graduates." The courses in the latter group are necessarily open only to men who have made considerable progress in their particular fields. They deal with more minute or obtuse aspects of a subject, and they give to the student the satisfaction that is to be had from advancing a little beyond the commonplace front line. Without one or two of them, no program of Concentration...
...general, however, those who have been most neglected have been the artists, the philosophers, the peaceful scientists, those who caused improvement, development, progress. In all ages, the warriors have held the public eye. Expense is not, and of course, should not be an objection when war pensions are considered. No one regrets the pensions still being paid to the forty-nine widows of men who fought in 1812, even if all of them must have been born after the war was over. In England, pigeons that carried messages under fire in the War have been pensioned, and will receive proper...
Having quashed the idea of Progress for all time, Dean Inge of St. Paul's, London, has nothing left to deplore but the unwillingness of college girls to marry. This he did at a meeting to support the endowment of four women's colleges at Oxford. He reported himself as astonished to learn that of 12,607 women "who have passed through Oxford" only 657 have married. He concluded that the rest were hardhearted. The principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, denied the charge. Miss Underwood of the Women's Freedom League retaliated that there was little...
...Expansion, Progress...