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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also illuminating, it shows you a good many things. One of the things that it has shown me is that few of the boys who come to us from schools can read books; they can read the printed page, of course, a sentence or a paragraph, but they cannot read a book. The real line of thought which runs through it they are ignorant...
This is a situation which Economics 1 and several other courses composed largely of Freshmen are peculiarly adapted to remedy. In such elementary courses there is little material which cannot be found set forth more clearly and more fully in books than it can be in a lecture, and the value of the lecture lies more in comment and explanation than in a repetition of exposition found in the reading. If, however, the two section meetings were used, not only to test the men on the reading, but to discuss it, to point out the main lines of thought...
...inconvenient. It is inconvenient and not dangerous because of the fine spirit shown by the undergraduate members. If the three Faculty members think one way, and the three undergraduates another, the undergraduates may put through what they please, since one of the Faculty members is in the chair and cannot vote, to make a tie. At such times, when the combined undergraduate and graduate experience of the absent members would be the most persuasive force in the committee, the undergraduates wait till the committee can get the benefit of that experience, and never, in any important matter, take advantage...
...provide that no student shall gradnate with a merely superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence...
...their power to bring out the best that is in the team by inspiring the players. Non-contestants can demonstrate their enthusiasm by filling the stands at the games, and should refrain from too free criticism. The season has just begun and the new men cannot be expected to play like veterans. We mention this obvious fact, because many seem to forget that careless criticism reaches and discourages those towards whom it is directed, however unadvisedly...