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There is significance in the rapidity with which articles on the colleges are appearing in the public press; evidently colleges are growing in some sort of reputation and are receiving notice accordingly. The latest discussion is in the current Outlook and is a substantiated opinion that colleges are giving valuable business training. This is scarcely in accord with Mr. Bok, who stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college...
...document now in force being, with the exception of certain changes made in 1891, the same instrument of government adopted in 1846. Many amendments have been made both by general and special acts, so that the provisions of the original charter are now in many cases entirely out of accord with the law and with the actual practice of the City government...
Monday morning the CRIMSON printed a report of President Eliot's address in Brooks House on "Racial Religion" which called forth the following communication. When President Eliot was interviewed yesterday by the CRIMSON, it was learned that the impression conveyed by the report was not accurately in accord with the impression which the address was intended to give. Thus, the communication is not so much a refutation of President Eliot's actual ideas as of their misstatement. A communication on the same subject was written by the Japanese students of the University; but as the ideas expressed were very similar...
...cheering. Almost unnoticed and unknown the man who devotes himself primarily to the cause of scholarship labors incessantly for four years and finally receives graduation honors. To him this official stamp of success is his reward. Yet, in spite of the fact that the undergraduate scholar of his own accord chooses this career which he knows receives small recognition from his fellows, when he may be quite able to win high distinction in the so-called "outside interests and activities," he is dubbed a narrow-minded, self-seeking "grind," who seeks to take all from and give nothing...
...Cunningham, statistician to the Boston and Albany railroad, has been appointed assistant professor of transportation in the Graduate School of Business Administration. He will devote practically all of his time to the railroad branch. This appointment is in accord with the policy of the School to appoint men having practical knowledge of the subject which they are to teach...