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...professional praise? An excellent theme may or may not be interesting to the general reader. If it is on The Abolition of the Forward Pass, it will probably be read by the college community. If it is on Sunset by the Shore, it probably will not be. The first task of the editors of a magazine is to interest their readers; and the best editors know that this can be done without vulgarity, sensationalism, or a lowering of literary standards...
...entering a state university or entering Harvard under the College Board Examinations as a candidate for the S. B. degree. To avoid a degree which does not in the least indicate his field of college study, this student must fit himself for the three-year Latin examination; a herculean task if undertaken without help; an expensive one if received from the "window"; a costly expenditure of valuable time if gained by attending the Cambridge, Latin School, as some men in college have done...
...problems of the University is a practical decision. The announcement in President Lowell's report of a "staggering deficit" has apparently struck home and the call is being answered by properly qualified men. As President Lowell pointed out, the responsibility of financial management connot rest with the faculty. Their task is to carry on the mechanical work of education itself. Cooperating with them must be a force of business men to take care of the business questions that are continually arising...
...balance the entrance requirements so nicely as to admit the worthy high school man and at the same time prevent the tutoring schools from railroading unprepared students through the examinations is a task which required the most delicate adjustment. With present methods of examination it seems doubtful whether it is even possible. If the new Board at Yale is successful in solving this perplexing problem, it will settle a question which has been check-mating the greatest educators for many years. There is little doubt, however, that the present entrance requirements at Harvard are not within the grasp...
...Harvard to shirk in carrying its share of the national quota seems so preposterous as to be incredible. But to treble a week's work in one day is no easy task. It must be that two-thirds of the University are asleep to the condition of the drive; no one would willingly shirk his share of so deserving an appeal...