Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard Dash.--Won by R. D. Howard '23; second, Gage, Andover; third, V. Chapin '23. Time...
...Yard Dash.--Won by R. D. Howard '23; second, Gage, Andover; third, V. Chapin '23. Time...
Preparations for the Freshman Jubilee, which is to be held on June 2, are now making fast progress and a tentative schedule for the day's events has been given out The list of ushers for the dance has been announced as follows: Head Ushers--V. Chapin and R. G. Hooker, Jr.; Ushers--C. C. Buell, Q. S. Cabot, M. Duane, F. Fiske, C. H. Hawes, J. T. Lanman, J. Larocque, C. C. Lee, H. S. Morgan, B. DeL Nash, E. Perkins, H. L. Pratt, J. R. Reynolds, D. F. Thayer, J. G. Winchester...
...Chapin's prize winning essay, "Education and College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority...
...with enthusiasm or perception but merely with a pedantic consciousness of literary tendencies and influences. This too is the fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed; that the colleges are not poisoning education; that the colleges and education are poisoned together at the wells of modern civilization. For beneath all isolated mistakes lies...