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...years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations. The College, although it has followed its own evolution, is English in origin; the Graduate Schools, especially in their ideals...
...progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruft High Tension Laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Peirce and Dr. Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communication with Berlin has lately been established...
...many instances, however, assistants --although men of scholarly promise--are appointed rather for their high records than for their ability to instruct. The tendency is to treat assistantships merely as graduate scholarships, given to aid men who are doing research work for higher degrees; and the professor is more concerned with the progress of that research work than with the teaching which the assistant does...
...found in the north room of the library. There is also a very interesting and growing collection of books by Harvard men; and there are more books which are prescribed in courses than is generally realized. The volumes are selected with a view to the needs not of the research worker, but of the general reader of taste...
...given tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, when Mr. A. W. Locke '05 will play a program of selections for the piano. Mr. Locke has recently been teaching at the University of Wisconsin and is now in the Graduates' School doing research work in the history of music. These concerts, to be given by students of musical ability in the University and a few others, will continue through this month and into April...