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...ultimate consequences of this shift of emphasis concerning the individual student will become, if the new tendency is long continued, very extensive. It can scarcely fall to exert a modifying effect upon the whole structure of American college education. Less and less faith will be placed, for example, in the importance of lectures, and more and more regard will be given to all those efforts which the student is led to undertake largely upon his own initiative to wit, energetic collateral and "outside" reading, debate among his fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities...
...future, the editors insist must be of the cautious, experimental type, a state of mind based not upon identification with a specific program, but upon the study of life and social processes. Militant liberalism rarely thrives unless it is given the impetus of hard times or a favorable shift in ordinary economic conditions. And the prosperous condition of industry in general has practically extinguished any lingering sparks of Promethean vigor at present...
Lieutenant R. D. Thomas chief of the United States Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum, will be in charge of the course this year. Lieutenant Thomas received the Shift Trophy for Safe Flying, which was recently presented by President Coolidge. He is credited with flying 500 hours without accident last year, the best record in the history of the naval air service...
...time was spent in imparting the rudiments of languages; and his working hours were longer than most people's. But his sturdy, sunny optimism never repined. More in accordance with his talents was a course in Middle High German which he had an opportunity to give before his complete shift to his favorite Romance field...
...Paraclete in his time plays many parts. Like the famous Italian lightning change actor. Fregolu whose name he takes, he can shift at will from Gypsy Fortune-Teller to American Theatrical-Manager, from the brazen trigamist to the tender agent of phonograph records, from Capuchin Monk to Harlequin himself in the latest of his thousand and one Harlequinades. Such sudden shifts will offer a splendid opportunity for the versatile acting of Eduardo Sanchez '26, the President of the Harvard Dramatic Club...