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Notable recognition of the quality of service which has been rendered the French army by the American sanitary transport section known as the Harjes Formation, was made last week by chief officers at the front...
...system is yet new and much experimenting remains to be done in the methods of tutoring before the desired ends are attained. At present some tutorial conferences become little more than fortnightly section meetings, with prescribed reading that tends to confuse rather than to systematize the subject matter. What is needed is not more reading but more intensive reading. The difficulty is increased when the students do not enter into the spirit of the plan, whose essence is co-operation between tutor and student...
...graduate of the University now studying at the Harvard Law School has recently written to the California Alumni Fortnightly concerning Harvard, ... "Though the knowledge of the Western section of the country among the undergraduates," says the writer, "is almost nil, I find the graduate students are mostly from the West and South." The dormitories and the Union strongly impress the Californian. "All of us," he says, "who have seen the Harvard Union and its large service to the University recognize that such an institution is badly needed at California." Just at this moment it is well to receive this suggestion...
Once a month, meetings are held at the Laboratory of the Boston Section of the Radio Institute, which is an international body of Radio-Telegraphic Engineers. These meetings are well attended and have proved of much interest. The work done at the laboratory, although primarily devoted to an apparently narrow special field, in reality covers a considerable portion of the subject of electricity, and is valuable as a part of a general scientific education...
...value in drilling and on special occasions, such as the parade on Memorial Day. In the second place, it would cut down expenses at mass meetings, football games, and other similar gatherings. Furthermore, a band composed of undergraduates will tend to give a feeling of solidarity to our cheering section...