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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON maintained in a recent editorial, students do not know how to study. It is a peculiar "school state of mind" which leads a man to bring his body to the class-room, while his brain is on the athletic field, or somewhere equally remote. He does not know among other things, the power of attention, effective note-taking, and a live intellectual curiosity in the lecture room as a time-saver in outside study. A recent case came before the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship bureau where a man who has won literary prizes failed to escape probation, in spite...
...exhausted and embittered by the combat, the United States has a most important and essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste...
Before the present system is given the sanction of tradition, no one should for get that it is nothing more than a prolonged experiment. It was devised in order to insure at least a reading knowledge of either French or German among all students of Junior standing. If the method in force fails to attain this end, it should be open to correction...
...annual dinner and business meeting of the Association of Harvard Engineers and the Enginering Society will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight. Among the speakers of the evening will be Mr. W. B. Parsons, chief engineer of the Boston, Cape Cod, and New York Canal Co., Mr. A. C. Humphreys, president of the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, and Professor G. H. Parker '87, of the Zoological Department...
...Among President Eliot's best known contributions to the University are his reorganization of the professional schools, his anticipation and preparation of the three-year course, and the institution of the free elective system...