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Named greatest U. S. woman of the century (1832-1932) in a nation-wide free-for-all-women poll to select the twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes. Second with 99,147 was Jane Addams, Others: Clara Barton, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan Brownell Anthony, Helen Adams Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon, Dr-Mary Emma Woolley...
...unfortunate features of any educational system that the scholarship of the professor is too often confined within the narrow limits of the college. Men who are specialists in their fields devote all their efforts to the teaching of a select group of students, thereby never giving the general public the opportunity of hearing first hand the results of their long years of study. While it is true that the primary duty of the professor is to educate for future generations, still, present day society, in order to meet its problems, should be given all possible benefit of the scholar...
...intensely aware that his subject is a growing one; he is better able to communicate this important concept to his students. Research imparts an atmosphere of growth and progress to any institution. Furthermore, the man who has kept abreast of contemporary thought in his subject is able to select the aspects of the most ultimate value to the student intending to continue in that particular field. Thus the combination of progressive teaching and research points the way to the accomplishment of one of modern education's greatest tasks, the preparing of men to take part in work that...
...gifts, especially the gift in memory of Robert F. Simes '85, and the gift from the Class of 1878, a large portion of which is used annually for the purchase of new books. For many years Professor Copeland and Professor G. H. Chase and others have met frequently to select books which properly belong in a "general reading library," and many of the best of current books on a wide variety of subjects may always be found there...
Granting all this, there still remains the problem of the Seniors who supposedly live, eat, dance, exercise, and carry on their several activities in seven separate units; and then must select their class officers at large as if they were the compact graduating class of some small college. There is no question but that this is unavoidable in such offices as marshal, ivy orator, chorister, orator, odist, and poet. But on the other hand, there is no reason why the members of the various committees should not be chosen with one man elected by each House, especially with regard...