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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once using anything but sound English oaths and a simple sign language. To hear the dusky Malays chew American gum and chatter the same English patois that could be heard at home would take not a little of the mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals and generals, armies, and militant statesmen would be lost for ever from a materialistic age thirsting for the wine of chivalry and pining for the fanfare of battle...
...requirement of the Office is, in turn, the result of the conception that the student must be "jacked up," and the grades offer bases for disciplinary action. But to form a correct opinion of a student's merits from his grade on an hour examination is scarcely possible. The good student may have momentarily neglected the short period covered in his attention to another similar period, or to the whole matter of the course. The poor student may have found local difficulties which would have disappeared later. The judgment of an "hour exam" is but a "snap" judgment...
...character does not change in a day, the best test of what a man will do in college is what he has done in preparatory school. There is an evil of wrong emphasis evidenced by the fact that scholarship is divorced from college which their nonscholastic system fails to correct, and which ours remedies by abandoning an arbitrary standard, and by raising the standard placing the students in our preparatory schools in an intellectual competition...
Unlike many innovators, Mr. Wiggam does not break down existing beliefs, and deplore present conditions without offering adequate theories and methods for improving them. He is quick to give rules (which he believes practical), that will correct the present defects. These rules are given in the Ten Commandments of Science which form the basis of the book. They deal with the great duty devolving upon statesmanship toward eugenics, scientific research, preferential reproduction, art, and internationalism. Special emphasis is placed upon the importance of the socialization of science, of the humanizing of industry, of the trusting of intelligence, and the necessity...
...last Monday's issue of the CRIMSON appeared a statement by an instructor in the English Department concerning outside reading. The author of the statement has pointed out that the report was not a correct interpretation of the sentiments originally expressed. What attempted to be some timely class advice, illustrated by the case of one man who had worked not wisely, but too well, was unfortunately misconstrued into a critical attack upon specific methods and courses. No such specific criticism was intended, the criticism being directed at the manner of doing large assignments of outside reading--with a hint...