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...Harvard were divided into colleges numbering about 300 students apiece, individuality would get a chance to assert itself once more. Instruction would become personal, and intra-mural sports the main athletic activity. All without loss of the advantages of the larger center...
...called "professional" who enters the field in the hope of attaining a knowledge of English literature that would qualify him for the higher degrees. The amateur is the man who should take heed, else the English department shall be filled to overflowing within a year, and will assert its supremacy over the field of Economics. The grievances of the deceived amateur will need airing; it will be learned that instead of the Saturday Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from...
...After all, why is knowledge so highly prized?" asks the committee. "Surely it is because of its power to throw light on the problems of human life. It seems reasonable to assert that all knowledge was philosophical in origin. When primitive man first raised the questions. "What?" and "Why" about life he originated the germs from which have sprung all our increasing categories of knowledge...
...housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine...
Upon one important aspect the circulums are silent. They assert that character, personality, and promise will be given equal weight with scholarly attainment in passing upon each individual candidate,--always excepting, of course, the bracket above 75 percent which enters regardless,--but there is no direct explanation of the method by which these factors will be guaged. The unprecedented requirement of a photograph is one means; in all probability even greater importance will be attached to recommendations of headmasters of schools. But the ruling foreshadows still another innovation. Some system of personal examination, particularly in doubtful cases, appears a necessary...