Word: rather
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...fair to force students to attend lectures if they do not find the lectures worth attending? It may not be possible to make all academic lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need hardly be said that this feeling is not now prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference...
...graduate who desired to review or resume the work of his undergraduate days; and lastly, the publication of such a list would supply in available form a wealth of information to many whom University Extension lectures can never reach. The purpose of the modern University is the dissemination rather than the hoarding of knowledge. Prescribed reading should no longer be treated as a "trade secret...
...certain degree of intimacy. It is not to a man's credit if at the end of Junior year he ceases to make friends; but he surely has a right by that time to prefer as sharers of his entry those men whom he knows to be congenial, rather than the same number of men who may or may not prove so. Moreover, the new system in giving groups of friends the opportunity to live together, does not prevent men who have fewer friends from taking their chances of finding agreeable neighbors, as in the past. Their chances...
...Illustrated continues its policy of serving as a sort of University Guide Book on the installment plan. In this issue there are two articles. One by Forest Cooke '10, reveals a rather unctious enthusiasm about the Brooks House, where undergraduates "catch" "religious experience." The other, by H. Y. Masten '10, narrates the adventures of Cambridge astronomers in "photographing the heavens" and supplies information, such as it is, about the astronomical instruments, their cost and equipment. The exploration and exploitation of Darkest Harvard for the benefit of readers of the Illustrated is without a doubt a worthy mission for a college...
...Department of English has made a wise move in relieving from prescription in English A, Freshmen who have maintained a high grade in this course during the first half-year. There is, however, an unfairness, probably of omission rather than commission, connected with this change. As matters now stand, those men relieved from prescription must pay an additional fee, if they wish to continue English A as an elective half-course during the second half-year. This is palpably unfair, as it sets a premium on mediocrity. Such an error or oversight should be corrected at once. FRESHMAN...