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...fact hat with infinitely less expenditure, fewer facilities and few or seekers, real scholarship on the part of the average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier day than it does now. Boston Transcript...
...distinguished contemporary, the Boston Evening Transcript, contributes the cogent criticism on current American education which is reprinted in an adjoining column. The pegs upon which hang the editorial reasoning are two. First, "we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently." Second, "The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other", and that "average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier...
...necessary for fame's sake, to advertise that their aim is "quality, not quantity." Harvard, Yale and Princeton have also stressed the point that they are "national" universities. And last week Yale, standing twelfth in point of size among the 86 representative institutions included in the Boston Transcript's annual survey,* pointed to itself as "most national" of the so-called Big Three. Taking the data of the classes of 1926 to 1929 inclusive, Yale proved itself Big Three favorite in 24 states. Princeton was second, leading in twelve states. Harvard, with the largest enrollment...
...footnote, see col. 2. *To TIME'S Education Editor a thoroughgoing reprimand for omitting from a tabulation of the Transcript's "ten largest enrollments" (TIME, Jan. 24), the largest one of all. The corrected list...
Professor McDougall is at present on his sabbatical leave travelling in Italy. In a letter recently received from him by the Boston Transcript, he says that the chief consideration that led him to make the change was the health of his wife and himself, which, he writes, will be improved in a warmer climate amid more quiet suroundings...