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...therefore suggest for the earnest consideration of this University a plan of academic training throughout the year, which will not only place Harvard among leaders in educational reform, but which will go far toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect the College immediately to reform. In default of that, it behooves every Harvard man, even at the expense of his marks, to do a little original thinking of his own about the problems which he must sooner or later face. REXFORD S. TUCKER...
...principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Louis Joseph Kopald, whose subject will be: "Should Reform Judaism be Reformed." Dr. Kopald, who was born in Kracow, Austria, in 1885 now occupies the pulpit of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, and is one of the main forces in the Student Congregation movement. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...blame the Russian people for going back on their allies is difficult to say. To pity them rather than curse them is the fairest way, for there is no sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them. All of which is their...
...University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association, and from 1912 to 1915, chairman of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League...