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...modified it and has done so excellently is evidently unrecognized by Mr. Darrow. The present tutorial system does much to make up for the handicap under which Harvard is placed. American preparation is adapted by it to English educational theories. Oxford goes to the extreme of casting its men adrift in the libraries of England with only a tutor to guide their footsteps. Harvard has borrowed the tutor, but finds it necessary to retain course instruction to meet the needs of the average preparatory and high school graduate. If Mr. Darrow but knows it, Harvard is doing all that...
...they were not granted the same consideration as upperclassmen, since they, more than any others, find it difficult to adjust themselves to the requirements of their college studies. But their case is different. So great is the change from secondary school to college that many Freshmen are left hopelessly adrift and need to have their difficulties brought early to the notice of the authorities and themselves...
...Department has had no little trouble in the administration of one of its charges, the Philippines. The Collectivist Party dominates in its demands that the Archipelago be set adrift, be given complete independence. One phase of this demand has been serious friction between the insular legislature and Governor .General Wood. The independence faction in the islands sent a mission, consisting of Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House, to the U. S. last Fall (TIME, Nov. 19). Senor Roxas presented his case to the President, and last week received a plain-spoken answer in the form of a letter. Said...
...covering. To test the flotation of one of the huge air liners, the British Air Ministry has determined on an interesting experiment. One of its less valuable planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge into...
...without the expense of an extra course, simply by giving two or three hours a week, as he chooses, to attending the lectures in the course. It is admittedly a makeshift, but a glimpse of other "islands somewhere in the seas of ignorance" is certainly better than being completely adrift...