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...planned ideally, and the fact that it is to be open in the future for Sophomores as well as Freshmen will more than double its usefulness. In all three of these courses there is a common advantage: the different phases of the subject are each treated by a specialist. Biology 1 has this same merit...
...more difficult, until in our day it is quite impossible. The pendulum has swung to the other extreme. Omniscience, quite rightly, is no longer a virtue; if seriously attempted it leads too often to superficiality, and superficiality is as far from the truth as the statement of the specialist who said that the downfall of Napoleon was entirely due to the economic factors involved. As is generally the case, neither extreme is safe ground; the specialized knowledge of today may often be as far from reality as were the universal generalities of the Middle Ages...
Several acute cases of pneumonia have been alleviated by passing a high-frequency alternating electric current through the lungs. The treatments were conducted at St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, New Jersey, under the direction of Dr. H. V. Broeser, X-ray specialist, after the method had been introduced by Dr. Harry E. Stewart, of Yale University, in a series of twenty cases at the United States Marine Hospital, Staten Island...
Lady Carnarvon: "When I learned that my husband was ill with blood-poisoning in Luxor, I immediately hired an airplane and a blood specialist and set out upon the 2,700 mile trip to Egypt...
These facts may suggest that distribution need not end when college requirements are fulfilled. The specialist must be proficient in one field, but to be a leader he must also be an amateur in many. Or, as Lord Bacon puts it, "expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars; but the general councils, and plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned...