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...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
Today's ceremony is a part of a nationwide inspection held each spring by the War Department to ascertain the strength and condition of the units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps maintained by the various colleges in the United States. Each unit is held responsible for the condition of the arms and equipment issued to it by the Government, and the commandant of the Corps must in every case state just what ground has been covered by the men in training during the year. On the basis of the reports handed in by its inspecting officers in different parts...
...students who keep books more than a week. The money from fines will be used exclusively for the purchase of new books. A record of each student's use of the library is to be kept in order that the Military Office may have another method by which to ascertain the names of those who are really interested in the activities of the University...
...pertinent the question whether peace is so far beyond the horizon as most people imagine. It is not all certain for example, that the Russian debacle has been unqualifiedly to the advantage of Germany. In relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining...
...stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...