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...only wish that every man, woman and child in this country could and would realize that we are up against the wickedest and most powerful force of evil that the world has ever seen, and that it is going to be a gruelling conflict that will test our country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength to win. And so I'm in it on that basis, and if it is possible for one atom...
...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
...propose that education be made more materialistic and more political seems in itself a harmless enough suggestion. The decisive test of the advisability of adopting such a principle, however, must be pragmatic in nature; we must seek to discover how it works out when put into practice. For the justification of this or of any other system of education, then, we must look to the product that it brings forth...
...says further that the individual opinions held by members of the CRIMSON Board will never prevent one holding contrary views from presenting his case to the College. We wish to test that statement. In order to do so we hereby assert that the personal opinions of one particular member of the CRIMSON Board were the obvious cause for the suppression of each of three communications from graduates...
...rate, the 1921 interdormitory teams and the class relay teams will run tomorrow on the board track, and the broad-jump will be held in the cage. This means that there is still an opportunity for men who have not yet done so to take a strength test, if they will report at Randolph Gymnasium between 1.30 and 3 o'clock today. No entrants will be allowed who have not recently passed such a test...