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Only in the closing paragraphs does the article seem reasonable. It justly attributes the unparalleled success of the German preparatory schools to the masterly training of their instructors. That is the place for American educational reform as long as it must be discussed. Why doesn't Mr. Holmes bemoan the existing practice of allowing ordinary normal school graduates to guide the child in the early formative years of his life? Why does it cry that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather...
...comparatively, the university is a free agent. It sets the standards and consequently bears the responsibility of keeping the standard as high as average human intelligence permits,--or perhaps even a little higher. Future generations may bemoan their sad plight of being born into a world a whole C ahead of their ancestors' but the natural result of the raising of university requirements will inevitably be the tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less...
...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...establishment is the enormous popularity among undergraduates of this form of rowing. Last year the record showed that sculls were taken out from the Newell and Weld boat houses more than 5,000 times. These figures naturally recall the days of 1876 when the college publications used to bemoan the fact that there was such a dearth of "pleasure-rowing" among undergraduates. Then there was the annual regatta in which scullers took part, as well as the Scratch races on the Charles. Their popularity was so distinctly feeble, that in the spring of '76, when only two candidates reported...
...merit that they ought to be received with at least as much enthusiasm as the hoard of political and social lectures which occur so frequently at more favorable times. We do not by any means begrudge the Cambridge public the opportunity to hear our distinguished visitors, but we do bemoan the fact that so few undergraduates care enough for literature to take an hour from their work or leisure to hear a truly notable poet...