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Some slight remedies are within the reach of these men themselves. They can seek out the professors they care to know outside of business hours; they can pursue an individual course of reading. The faculty itself is also attempting to improve matters, by broadening the scope and the privileges of the Dean's List. But, in spite of all this, there remains much that could be profitably changed. If anything is to be accomplished, there must first be a real recognition of the need of improvement, both on the part of the student and of the faculty. This can only...
...Pottinger in another column of this issue can only hope to touch the surface of things; for an organization in which "men of wealth and men of learning have co-operated", be its age three centuries or eight years, is capable of almost unlimited service to education. Its scope extends from theses on philology to instructive volumes on "The Writer's Art", and its works in every field are authoritative...
...Washington Conference: Its Scope and Possibilities" has been selected as the topic for consideration this evening. Lawrence Higgins 1G., who was until recently connected with the Historical Section of the United States Army General Staff, will be the teacher of the forum...
...emotional experiences, the war merely intensifier those qualities which they already possessed". War, that is to say, is an impartial intensifier of what is latent in men, bringing out the good as readily as the bad. The whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid the savage. It exalts the "hard-boiled", physical courage which is by no means...
...wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages: Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish and Turkish. There are also suggestions of courses in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and Serbo-Croatian. These are offered...