Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...present nation-wide questionnaires being conducted to find the stand of the public on the prohibition question seem to us to be of some practical value because of the very mass of statistics being compiled. A poll among college students seems especially important when we consider the contention of the "wets" that drinking among young people has become more widespread and of a more serious nature than ever before...
...graduate of the Modern Language Department may intend to teach, but when, after his employer has learned that he has an S. B., what can he answer to the question. "In which particular field of science are you qualified to teach?" The arrangement leads to a ridiculous anomaly. The CRIMSON has suggested the remedy of "letting the field of concentration of undergraduates determine the kind of degree they are to receive." If this is not satisfactory, there are certainly other reforms that will amend the situation. J. H. Selvidge...
Conservatism is the grand old guard that brings the radical and the idealist back to a necessary compromise with the facts. The delicate balance between these opposing forces keeps history level-keeled, mankind level-headed. In his stand on the Prohibition question as well as in his condemnation of faddism in education, Mr. Taft shows himself to be a conservative, and a conservative of mighty calibre. His attack on new educational schemes and his plea for the old scholastic methods raise the serious question as to whether the swift pace of modern affairs has not tinted modern education with superficiality...
...such a question, the college undergraduate would reply that mathematics still exist and that the sciences have partially taken the place of the classics. It is true, however, that specialization in college is often attempted without a sure foundation in the ancient fundamentals. In directing his criticism against the type of faddism that allows each preparatory school student to choose the subjects that he likes, Mr. Taft touches a sensitive spot in modern education...
...nine men who will work on this question under the direction of J. P. Wernette 4G, former University of California debater, are H. G. Abdian '30, R. M. Alt '32, W. P. Champman '31, C. F. Elliott '31, G. W. Harrington '30, J. S. Jennison '30, D. L. Lloyd '31, A. B. Rood '31, and A. A. Windecker...