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Experience is a wise old teacher, but her lessons come high. At this particular time, when the choice of courses for next year is incumbent upon juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, one is likely to hear it said that the best way to select courses is by the professors who give them. False doctrine! for unfortunately one's fate in a course rests too little upon the professor. There is always an attendant possibility for better or for worse which cannot be overlooked. So long as the latter possibility remains, the big question is not "Who gives the course...
Apropos of the recent discussion at Harvard concerning cheer-leading, it is amusing to, note that other universities are finding the matter something of a problem. At the University of Washington, where noise exhorters are known as "yell kings", the proposal is now put forth to select the aspirants for the honor on the same basis as managerial candidates...
...average individual accepts them as a matter of course. Some men take them as a bore and give them as little time as possible. There are others or whom this glimpse of different fields is an impulse to further investigation. Yet divisionals themselves require that the earnest student select courses not in other fields but courses which will be of benefit to him in his chosen field. To fill in the gaps and round out the college training, an able corps of tutors may not only guide the students in their fields of concentration, but may also encourage them...
...ever-active New York World, last week, announced proudly "a new literary achievement." This feat amounted to nothing less than inducing the fiction editors of 16 U. S. magazines each to select that short story which he felt to be the best his magazine had published in 1924. Assembled at a luncheon given by the World, the editors had been told that, by definition, they were the most competent judges of short stories in the U. S.; hence a collection of tales selected by them would be the most authoritative volume of "best stories of 1924" conceivable. Enthusiastically the editors...
...effort of the Chicago Boys' Week Federation to select one boy as "Chicago's Best Citizen in 1950" deserves the serious attention of urban dwellers all over the country. Reports of the effects of a city on abnormal children are not lacking, but so far, no one has investigated the results of urban life on normal children. If it is carried out thoroughly, the Chicago plan ought to show what Chicago people think a citizen should be and also what they think their city is doing to children...