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President William T. Foster '01, of Reed College, pertinently criticizes American college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students...
Here's what's going to happen. Tomorrow at 6.30 A.M. a professional trumpeter (who by the way is also a dignified Senior) will make his rounds in the Yard in an endeavor to awaken the many souls who might forget what day it is. The start comes at 7.30 when the Seniors will march behind the First Corps Cadet Band to Thayer where one of the best photographers of the realm will take a picture while the taking is good...
...easily reduced to the absurd by considering the comparative evil of copying three of four dates in an examination, and copying the major part of a thesis, the first of which actions is condemned, while the second is condoned. It is high time that public opinion should awaken to the artificiality of the distinction herein contained; let it brand with their right names those who cheat in outside written work, and place them where they belong...
...whether they will expect the undergraduate to acquire his knowledge of the military through the regular means provided by the government in its militia system, is not stated in the outlines of the scheme which have come over the Atlantic cable. If the plan goes into operation it may awaken similar military interest in the curricula of the larger American universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, which now are without the services of Regular Army instructors. The only large Eastern university to avail itself of the services of an officer of the Army at present is Cornell, where...
...life and the opportunities which Harvard offers. In this way, it will be possible to some extent to counteract the influence of inaccurate and distorted news of Harvard life that is often printing in the daily papers throughout the country. To rectify popular impressions of Harvard, and to awaken in men in far distant parts of the country interest in the opportunities offered here are the two main purposes of the plan...