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...That it was not so leads us to believe that the measure was forced through the faculty meeting without giving the members of that body a sufficient chance for discussion or any chance to learn what the students, graduates and others interested in Harvard had to say upon the subject. This savors too much of political wire-pulling and gag law methods, and hardly reflects credit on those having the matter directly in charge before and at the meeting. Therefore, for these reasons, in the first place, that the present action was too hasty and that the students were...
...superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge whatever. There are, of course, minds which are capable of making more progress in various directions than other minds in a single direction, but I think it can hardly be disputed that the same mind will obtain a more superficial knowledge when directed...
Narrative Composition. (Courses for sophomores.) Special subject: The Mid-Year Examination Paper. Mr. Briggs. Sever...
Cornell is to have a course of lectures on the subject of the "Protection of Home Industries." These will be followed by a course on "Free Trade." Thus both sides will have a fair show...
...undergraduates had a feeling that their instructors were trying to force them to "make bricks without straw," by giving examinations apparently destined to find out what they did not know about a course, rather than to furnish an opportunity of showing how much they did know of the subject. Recently a fresh instance of thoughtfulness on the part of an instructor for the convenience of the men studying with him has been shown by the instructor in Greek 1, who has had printed for the members of his section a pamphlet in which is published in detail the work...