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...different way; namely, by putting together men who have the common ground of certain other courses. There will be four sections of men who are taking Government I, three sections of men taking Philosophy one for History I, and one for Classics. Without in the least attempting to teach these subjects, English A will, whenever it seems feasible, try in assigning themes and readings, and in various other ways, to use the common ground of these other studies. Thus the men working more or less together in their courses may be approached as a common body with mutual interests...
...business has attracted more than twice as many Seniors as any other occupation. Seventy-eight of the class of 1913 at present intend to engage in business operations as their life occupation, while law with the next highest total has forty-two men. Thirty-four men propose to teach and twenty-six will go into engineering. Sixteen men have elected banking, fifteen chemistry and fourteen aspire to become physicians. Eleven Seniors will engage in manufacturing, ten will be farmers and ten will be ministers. Study, architecture, journalism, diplomacy, forestry, mining, the army, social service, politics and literature are all among...
...Bergson and the American Character. He urges in a very forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must be won of thought...
...elementary Latin and Greek he will be allowed to enter with 15 1-2 units of school work. Just how much influence this provision will exert in increasing the study of Greek is hard to say. At present most of those who are studying Greek are doing so to teach it later; and so it goes on, teachers instructing future teachers. This state of affairs may be likened to a dog chasing its own tail and finally dropping exhausted through his efforts. The aversion for the Greek may be too fundamental to be eliminated by a subsidy on the subject...
...twenty-second annual meeting and dinner of the Harvard Teachers' Association will be held tomorrow. The general topic of the day will be "Better Teaching." The morning meeting will be held in Emerson J at 10 o'clock, and will be open to the public. Teachers, school officers, and students who intend to teach are especially invited...