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...your opportunity here--opportunity with a Big "O?" We are earnestly seeking young men of capability whom we can develop, into big-income units in our organization. If you are twenty-three years or over an are looking for the right sort of financial connection, we shall be glad to talk it over with you. You are asked to invest nothing but your time and ability. Of course your character and references must be satisfactory. If you are interested in an unusual chance, write for appointment to. SUPERINTENDENT, 2020 TRINITY BUILDING, 111 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
...College makes some interesting suggestions as to the desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with the bachelor of arts degree and found...
...move of the Senate in its war on the executive. According to last evening's papers, that body has taken as an official document a paper brought to this country by a Chicago newspaper man and has voted to introduce it into the Congressional record. No word of any sort confirming the authenticity of the document has come from the American representatives in Paris. The Senate is in reality going behind the back of the President, or as one Senator remarked "getting through the kitchen window...
...social sciences, by which I particularly mean economics and sociology, are to be strengthened by new professorships, and the sort of work known generally under the term of university extension, by which the strength of the university is given to the technical guidance of the community and the state, will be developed on a departmental basis...
...gate to the College Yard in memory of the men of your class who fell in the war. Bit by bit the Yard is being beautified but much remains to be done, and I can think of no more fitting nor permanent memorial, of a modest but apt sort than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead in the great war, but I should be unhappy to think that the prospect...