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...students, in spite of real effort to break down the 'class-consciousness' of teacher and student, the gulf between their attitudes is too fundamental to be easily bridged. Unless it is bridged, however, the undergraduate is left in a sort of Peter Pan condition, looking back to his schoolboy life and carrying along his schoolboy interests with him, instead of anticipating his graduate or professional study or his active life. What should be an introduction to professional or business life in a world of urgent political and social issues, and the acquiring of intellectual tools with which to meet their...
...some time before he leaves college, every undergraduate should have progressed sufficiently away from the schoolboy stage to feel that he owes accountability in his work only to himself. At present such is far from being the case. As every great crisis is said to develop its own leaders, so the only way in which responsibility can be developed is to give opportunity for the exercise of responsibility. It is therefore proposed that the Office no longer keep the attendance of members of the two upper classes at any lectures or recitations. No single measure would do more to develop...
...third annual interscholastic gymnastic meet will be held in Hemenway Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets at 25 cents each may be obtained at the door. The meet promises to be the most interesting schoolboy gymnastic contest ever held in New England. Last year Phillips Exeter Academy won the meet, although closely pressed by the other teams...
...other events a majority of the University runners are expected to place. The University will be entered in only two more indoor track meets this season after tonight's games. On February 27 a short distance relay team will run against the B. A. A. at the schoolboy meet in Mechanics Building. The indoor track schedule will end with the meet at Madison Square Garden, N. Y., on March...
...silver trophy has been presented to the 390-yard relay team by the B. A. A., for winning the race at the schoolboy games on Feb. 28 in the world-record time of 3 minutes, 3 seconds. It will be placed in the Trophy Room. The members of the winning team were R. Tower '15, F. W. Capper '15, W. J. Bingham '16, and Capt. W. A. Barron...