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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...schools, it must be said, respond to the best of their ability, but their ability is sometimes very limited. Public institutions stumble over the question of appropriations, private institutions meet the problem of insufficient endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal School graduates find it more profitable to serve, let us say as hotel waiters, and full-fledged college professors have to content themselves with stipends that the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers would treat with scorn...
...Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples
Lieutenant Stephen Tullock Hopkins '14, a pilot in the 96th Aero Squadron, A. E. F., was killed in action at St. Mihiel early in September. From the best information available his plane was shot down on September 12, and both he and his observer, Lieutenant Bertram Williams '18, whose death has already been reported, were killed. They are buried at Charey, France...
...certain profession. Such men are few, The majority of undergraduates are in college for the very purpose of discovering for what work they are fitted, Bravery's man in contact with the whole field of learning. Thus by a process" of alimination he can discover for what he is best adapted. When this is done, the plan of "Concentration" centers his studies in this field. Yale's plan does away with this function of the college by assuming a man's life work to be determined...
...themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further: "it is not how much we are taught, but rather how readily we attain the faculty for learning," which makes for success in life. We will never "learn how to teach ourselves by using books properly and by exploiting our teachers to the best advantage" if we seek in "peptonised information" for the "detailed facts which insure success in life." Education has been defined in two ways: "Individual effort," and secondly, "placing students so that they cannot resist instruction." The choice of the better of these is not hard to make. I should like...