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...Harvard the change should rather be in the direction of higher requirements for the master's degree. An A.M. is easier to obtain in the University than in some graduate schools of less reputation. Four courses, each passed with a grade of B, are sufficient; no research work of thesis, unless incidental to a particular course, is required. And the Faculty are also somewhat freer with B minuses to graduates than to the undergraduates who can pass with C's. It would be a salutary reform which would make the A.M. degree worthy of the prestige it enjoys professionally...
...Agreement provides, in general, that the University and Technology 'shall co-operate in the conduct of courses leading to degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy and in the promotion of research in those branches of applied science,' and that the work shall be conducted in the new Technology buildings in Cambridge. To these purposes Harvard will devote not less than three-fifths of the net income of the Gordon McKay Endowment and all of the net income from funds now credited to the Lawrence Scientific School. The Institute will devote the principal and income...
...Trustees of the Endowment, in the brief they have filed, object to the Agreement on the ground that it gives to Technology complete control of the work of education and research in the applied sciences which, under the Gordon McKay Endowment, is entrusted to Harvard. In support of this position they urge that by the Agreement, the Faculty of Technology, enlarged by the addition of certain members of the teaching staff of the University, is given full charge of the work under the executive control of the President of Technology; that the Faculty of Technology so enlarged will consist...
...start should be made while the Latin professors, who have in the past looked to Europe for fresh ideas and for visiting lectureships, are still unaccustomed to the conditions caused by the war, and are not settled in their present necessity of staying at home for all of their research work...
Friends of special interest activities in the University will be glad to note the recrudescence of the Wireless Club. This time the organization has struck a vein of new enthusiasm for radio telegraphy; it has the support of research students at the Cruft Laboratory, is to become a member of the American Radio Relay League, and to do some actual experimental work in the receiving and sending of messages. If successful, the Wireless Club will present a worthy example of what can be done in developing serious interests on undergraduate initiative...