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...have read with interest and with a certain reminiscent sympathy your editorial of April 28 on the new requirements for graduation in Ancient and Modern Languages. The bewilderment to which you refer is, I think, due to two causes; first, to a misunderstanding of the plan as outlined in the pamphlet; second, to the fact that it has been impossible to publish before now the specimen examination papers which (it is hoped) will go far to clear up that misunderstanding...
...Board, and there is likely to be some reduction in wage rates, particularly as regards unskilled labor, which profited to the greatest extent by war conditions, and in working rules. Much publicity has been given to the effect of these restrictive rules. It is not necessary for me to refer to them in detail, but as one example might be cited the case of an important eastern trunk-line, to which these rules alone are causing an additional yearly expense of $14,900,000, a sum sufficient to pay 5 percent on the capital stock of the company...
...examination question. Confronted by the testimony of successful and flunking students alike, an impartial observer must conclude that ability to "guess what the instructor is after" plays all too great a part in the determination of one's mark. Instructors are led through long familiarity with their courses to refer to subjects in terms which even the most faithful student may not fully understand. Some even intentionally make questions indefinite with the avowed purpose of giving the student something to think about. Intuition is undoubtedly a valuable asset in the world at large; but the average undergraduate revolts...
...feel justified in assuming that what you refer to in your letter as "snobbishness" and what I call in may story "priggishness" is nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt...
...feel justified in assuming that what you refer to in your letter as "snobbishness" and what I call in may story "priggishness" is nothing but what form time immemorial has been known as "Harvard indifference". Can anybody seriously question that there must be something peculiar to Harvard which arouses all this vehemence? Of course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt...