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...work will consist largely of gathering and writing up news, and no previous journalistic training is required. It offers one of the best opportunities for building up a wide and intimate knowledge of all the activities of the University. Further details of the competition will be explained by the managing editor on Thursday evening...
...huge expansion of the field of knowledge which took place in the nineteenth century. It was no longer possible to make any pretense that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above character. It was held that all learning...
...general examination will crown and fortify this group system. As President Lowell says, the plan "has attracted wide attention, and would seem to be a notable advance in American educational methods." Hitherto, under both the elective system and the ancient curriculum, the examinations have been by separate course, the paper being set by the professor in each of them, and the student being held responsible mainly for such knowledge only as had been imparted in the lectures. They were largely tests of memory, and were scattered through the four years of undergraduate life. As a system it was identical with...
...failure to get what the University had to offer. At no other American college is there available so much intellectual stimulus as here at Harvard, and no where else is a man thrown so much on his own resources intellectually. This is especially true in the matter of wide reading and of the interchange of ideas through discussion. Undergraduates are not urged to "go out" for discussion clubs; whatever part they take in such invaluable training must be spontaneous. And, beyond this, the undergraduate must train himself to apply efficient methods to a concrete problem; a training which the technical...
...plurality of nearly 500 votes the University decided in favor of Proposition 4 in the nation-wide ballot held yesterday to determine the opinion of college students and faculty members in regard to the League of Nations and the Peace Treaty. Proposition 4 was in favor of a compromise between the Lodge and Democratic reservations in order to facilitate the ratification of the Treaty. A total of 2,455 votes was cast of which 2,367 were by students and 88 by Faculty members. 1,113 students and 56 instructors signified their desire for a compromise as stated in proposition...