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...general feeling of the course is one of hodge-podge but how else can one consider the wealth of material that must be skimmed. The reading is a mosaic of short bits which fill in the ordinarily dull background of the lectures. The temporal scope of the material begins in colonial days with a certain amount of sentimental reading and a modicum of neat scholarly accounts. The course teaches the why and wherefor of some of the quirks of American intellects, after defining in ten sentences the constitution of an American. On the whole the work is entertaining...
...college presidency is that the students should desire to be like the president. I can imagine few people whom it would be more wholesome to be like than him." Said President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Amherst's rival. Dartmouth: "My respect has continued and grown for the scope of his intellectual interest and for the quality of his thinking in regard to political and social problems...
...biology is that various processes, microscopic and otherwise, can be filmed at great length, and then speeded up in exhibition, thus depicting the entire process in a short time, and laying emphasis on significant stages of development, arbitrarily chosen by the producer in his laboratory. Thus the necessarily limited scope of laboratory instruction can be supplemented with "living" specimens from all parts of the world, including many which are unavailable in a laboratory, and "biology ceases to be a course depending upon words, charts and black board diagrams...
...University should offer a fertile field for such a publication. The nature of its huge organization affords unusual opportunities for constructive criticism; it contains trained men with literary ability who are able to treat intelligently not only educational problems but others of broader scope; and it provides this type of magazine with a class of readers sure to be interested in such a content. The inspiration necessary for the establishment of a forceful University publication Mr. De Voto has lent to the Graduates Magazine during his short term as editor. He passes on to his successor a live, interesting magazine...
...only through constructive criticism that we may develop. A college student, continually involved in the study of problems, assimilation of thoughts, and the acceptance and rejection of opinions has an unmeasured scope for the enlargement of his ideas. We breach a subject and test it with our preconceived surmise; we guide the image around our minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left...