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That ought to give college men something to think about. The average collegian regards the summer holidays merely as a period of recreation and rarely thinks of them as the chance of a lifetime. Of course, a large number of students obtain work of various kinds during July, August and September, but the ordinary summer job has little or no educational value . . . If it is a case of necessity, any work is justified, but not otherwise. By carefully planning his vacation program almost any enterprising young man can do far better. He can fill the whole or part...
...three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses...
...average collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop...
...latest "College spirit is strangely out of date here in Cambridge. But when we travel homeward during the holidays, who does not feel a twinge of pride in naming her school . . . in defending it against a collegian brother? 'A prophet is not without honor in his own country', and school spirit finds fertile soil in all undertakings such as this publication would surely be. Here, then, is an unlimited Alaska: and unplowed West; an ungrazed Australia. The tools are at hand; the fields stretch before us; where are the ploueers?" Well, where are they...
This might well be described as the article of faith back of the whole system of concentration and distribution, of guidance strictly limited and of adaptation to the student rather than to the "collegian." It is highly encouraging to watch its development and expansion in one college after another. With greater and wider experience in its application its defects will be discovered and eliminated with much greater success than would be possible if it remained confined to only one or two institutions of higher learning...