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...Pygmalion, Dr. Wilson is at great pains to have us distinguish between a symptom of disease and an effect or result of disease. He heralds the return of the general practitioner to study a sick man in the light of his whole environment, to assign to specialists their particular duties in the case...
Bananas. Early in their session, the scientists were invited to assign the banana to its original home. It had long been agreed that southeastern Asia deserved the honor. Fossil seeds (probably Oligocene) from Colombia, however, argued that the banana is essentially an American fruit-Dr. Edward W. Berry, Johns Hopkins...
...need them all. Theses are falling due like the plagues of Egypt, and the gods that send them are just as inexorable. Professors, struck with the thought of so much to be done in so little time, are suddenly moved by an overpowering liberality. Instead of paltry chapters, they assign volumes. And all the while, the day of doom approaches...
...undergraduate as the fundamental factor vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign a pigeon-hole as the area of his progress, naturally cries "Away with the monster. Paternalism and nothing else is the cause of my stagnation...
...Saturday Evening Post for March 21 appears another article by "The Old Dog", carrying on the attack begun last October against Harvard's educational system. The rush of college life, the limitless capacity of professors to assign impossible tasks, and the apparent "cleverness" of Harvard youth to match their wits against those of the professors and win--it is all too much for "The Old Dog"! He is frankly skeptical and concludes that Harvard youth are not becoming educated...