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...final analysis, his study has magnified one small aspect of Wordswroth's life so far beyond its correct proportion that his conclusions are meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding of his poetry. As a great poet unfortunately out of vogue. Wordsworth does not need a historian or a psychiatrist, but a great critic, a literary game apparently also out of vogue...
...word experiment as applied to the House Plan has been rightly relegated to some far off limbo. In connection with House athletics it is, however, still a cogent limitation. There is little basis on which a discussion of sport relations in and between the various houses can be made at present. The somewhat varied success of the athletic attempts of Dunster and Lowell Houses this year places the brand of experiment even more indelibly on the approaching problem...
...four-year loafer" and misfit on his fellows is becoming generally recognized in educational circles. The need for a weeding-out process is essential if the universities and colleges are to be maintained as dispensaries of culture in the best meaning of the word. Herein then, lies the most cogent argument for the examination and here is a need, to eliminate the misfits from colleges, that no other agency has been invented to meet...
...average man, sufficient reason to justify the placing of room prices in the old Freshman dormitories on a par with those in new buildings such as Eliot House. As a technical question, the basis for the increase in room rents is at once more difficult and more cogent than would appear to most students...
Most men who hold doctor's degrees from British universities (excepting doctors of medicine) receive them not for toil and research but as a mark of honor. Discriminatingly do British universities hand out kudos. Of three reasons most cogent to U. S. universities (to encourage or pay for endowment donations; to publicize themselves; to render genuine homage to great men), most often are the British guided by the third, marking with distinction the authentic great. None so marked can consider himself more highly honored than he who receives from Oxford University a degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Last...