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...Education. "If and when the high schools and colleges devise methods which select and retain their students more wisely, arouse in the great majority of them real intellectual interest . . . and equip them for life more skilfully and promptly, co-education at those ages might conceivably be advisable...
...Friday, June 6, the regular business session of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be held to discuss the reports of officers and committees, to elect officers, and to select the place of the next meeting. As part of the Friday meeting it is expected that Professor H. E. Clifford, acting Dean of the Engineering School, will speak on the work of this department of the University. Assistant Professor K. B. Murdock '16 will speak on recent developments of the House Plan, while J. F. Dwinell '02 will make a report on the Harvard Employment Service. In the evening the annual...
...Anglo-Indian select committee on dangerous drugs unanimously recommended, last week, that the cultivation of cocoa plants for the manufacture of cocaine be authorized in India, that the sale of this drug should be a state monopoly like opium...
Freshmen now have slightly more than three weeks, until April 23, to select the studies which they will pursue as Sophomores. Before making a final decision each student must hold a conference with his faculty adviser and with a representative of the field in which he intends to concentrate. The plan of study submitted must include concentration and distribution for the whole college course, and also the list of courses elected for the first half of the Sophomore year...
While astronomers debated and calculated, names for X poured into newspaper offices. Mrs. Percival Lowell, widow of the planet's prophet, at first leaned toward "Percival" but now prefers "Lowell." Outside of Boston neither suggestion has been warmly received. Astronomers, a conservative clan, will likely select a classical name. If Clyde Tombaugh, first human actually to see the planet, suggests a name satisfactory to astronomers, it will doubtless be accepted. Names suggested last week: Telesis, Noveno, Amos, Andy, Tunney, Pax, Archie, Nonus, Cronos, Ceres, Juno, Vulcan, Persephone, Minerva, Excelsis, Coolidge, Hoover, Jesus...