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...seeker for archaeological information in China," says the account of Mr. Warner's recent trip, "follows any clues that come his way, and generally finds that they lead, not to the promised Tang masterpiece, but to some modern atrocity. The expedition went up many of these blind alleys, but one morning it stopped to look at some caves said to contain ancient carvings. The cave turned out to be one of the most important finds of the expedition...
...debate on the Federation's merits. They could have pondered forensically the worth of the Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could wish differently for Harvard needs an open forum much more than she needs an Association of Readers of Clinical Notes. To be or not to be--really, the Debating Union should determine the answer...
...deprived are not a few of persistent caliber who would appreciate and benefit by the training. In theory, there seems no objection to furnishing a course in composition which will satisfy their needs. In practice, however, it is difficult to set standards which can not be evaded by the seeker of sinecures. If theme writing is to rise above the grammatical stage, a considerable latitude has to be allowed the individual. That this freedom may degenerate into license is amply proven by the suspension of English 6 in the crusade against the iniquity of case. Before a composition course...
...instinct bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...from the human standpoint, the danger of over-specialization exists to a great degree in a university of graduates. With the efficient elimination of friction between the scholar and the simple seeker of a baccalaureate degree devotees of higher learning are apt to lose one of their few remaining contacts with the world. Just this lack of varied experience prevents the scholar from becoming a great teacher. Since the American plan of advanced study well nigh excludes its followers from the untheorized actions of their fellow men, it is to a certain degree incomplete...