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Your champion for cheated students is barking up the wrong tree when he attacks the Mil. Sci. department. Apparently he has a room-mate who is taking courses offered by that department, and is basing his argument on just what has been told him. He gives the impression of a freshman frantically hunting for something to write about a half hour before the deadline at Warren House...
Will those who were omitted and wish to be listed in a supplement to the Telephone Directory to be printed in the CRIMSON, or whose numbers are given wrong, please notify the CRIMSON, giving name, address, and number, on a respectable sheet of paper, as soon as possible...
...Landon, two if by Roosevelt, and skyrockets for Colonel Apted, is the formula that has been adopted. One lantern will be lowered and waved in semi-circle to the north if Landon is leading at 9 o'clock tonight. If, however, Lloyds prove to have the wrong information, and Roosevelt leads at 9.30 o'clock, two lanterns will be lowered, one slightly higher than the other, and both will be hurled into a semi-circle to the south...
...scholarship of ancient Rome and Athens. In the current "Harper's" he takes sharp issue with Mr. Conant, and offers as the ideal General Education the study of rhetoric, logic, mathematics and the classic books. The President is headed in the right direction, but he is on the wrong road...
...falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort to plunge through such morasses unaided. Commentaries and lectures which show the relation between events and the growth of doctrines double the value of an old book. Students who read nothing but specialized research may miss the forest because of the trees...