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...regular activities of the Engineering School, opens today for an eight-week session. Students will leave for Camp this morning at 9 o'clock from the North Station. Mr. Albert Haertlein '16, instructor in civil engineering, and Mr. C. N. Palge, instructor in surveying, who are to teach at the Camp this summer have already left...
...This witty generalization," the weekly observes, "is obviously unfair and misleading, but it indicates how learned Europeans regard our current passion for attempting to teach in our colleges subjects that are far better learned in the school of experience." While students for the ministry, medicine, law, and the teaching profession have long found preparation at college, the modern university -- the state university in particular -- has added to its other activities a score of quasi-technical fields unthought of a century ago. The sciences, business, engineering, and agriculture, to cite a few examples, have now been accorded a place in academic...
Such an accomplishment ought to teach this much at least: that the world judges the extent that we are educated by what we know, and not by what we have studied; and while the university is the ideal medium through which an education may be secured, it is not the only one, and we can continue our training to good advantage after we have left our alma mater. Michigan Daily...
...said that the library contains specimen papers for the benefit of just such men. But are these papers always useful? There is no reason why an instructor should run his course in a certain way because it has always been done so. Or, if a new professor arrived to teach a new course, his students could not expect to learn his methods by the study of previous examinations. Perhaps all this explains why most instructors do not volunteer the information that old examination papers are on view in Widener...
Miami University of Florida is one exception to the rule. It has established a fellowship in creative art. The man who holds it, Perey MacKaye in this case, is not asked to teach or lecture; he has nothing whatever to do with college administration. By accepting the followship he is expected to devote himself to whatever he likes. Mr. MacKaye, being a writer, will have the opportunity of adding to American literature without worrying over financial matters. A similar scholarship has been awarded the composer, Edgar Kelley, by the Western College...