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Number (1) objective fulfills the age-old cry for more contact of University professors in the world outside their academic cloister. Business men, politician, radicals, and Hearst have all at one time or another cried for it. This particular application of the idea, as Mark Twain said of always doing right, "will gratify some, and astonish the rest...
...With the age-old problem of the commuters finally brought to a successful close through the establishment of Dudley Hall as a center for nonresidential social activities, members of the new organization will have an opportunity to meet each other informally at a smoker to be held at 8 o'clock in the building this evening. Peregrine White 2L, secretary of the organization, will preside...
...result of the satisfactory solution last March of the University's age-old problem of providing commuting students with a suitable lunch room and an adequate center for social activities, the first floor of Dudley Hall, at 16 Dunster Street, remodeled during the summer at an expense of $40,000 to the University, will be opened on Monday, September 23, for the benefit of 600 upperclassmen of greater Boston who plan to commute to their classes during this year...
...result of the satisfactory solution last March of the University's age-old problems of providing commuting students with a suitable lunch room and an adequate center for social activities, the first floor of Dudley Hall, at 16 Dunster Street, remodeled during the summer at an expense of $40,000 to the University will be opened on Monday, September 23, for the benefit of 600 upperclassmen of greater Boston who plan to commute to their classes during this year...
Four years in college should open the mind to vistas hitherto unexplored, and broaden the intellectual horizon to an extent unachievable elsewhere. But in the realms served by heredity, environment, and upbringing, where education has little influence, the individual must go his own way, and attempt to solve the age-old problem of his relations to society. The great danger in higher education is permitting scepticism to turn upon problems whose solution requires more than voluminous knowledge, and far more, than intellectual brilliance...