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...CRIMSON investigation of college entrance has met with two apparently divergent ideas. One of these is expressed by Mr. Corwin, Chairman of the Yale Board of Admissions, in his article in today's issue of the CRIMSON in which he states that the transition from the secondary school to the college should involve an obvious change in method to stimulate the intellect of the student. Apparently opposed to this is the idea that courses in the preparatory school should contain some of the material to be taught in college so that the student will have some intelligent means of judging...
...Corwin's ideas are construed as applying only to teaching methods while Mr. Wendell speaks from the point of view of subject matter, the discrepancy is obviated. It is perfectly easy to reconcile the jolt Mr. Corwin advocates with Mr. Wendell's ideas of semi-college subjects taught in the preparatory school manner in secondary schools...
...Corwin declares, one of the great points of college methods is to inoculate the student with the principles of self-education. This is an aim completely divorced from secondary school methods and it is necessary to impress this change upon first year college students if they are to respond to the intellectual stimulus that the college is supposed to offer...
...condition of their city's streets. Last week they tempted artists, architects, designers with $750 in prizes for a new and beautiful trash basket or refuse receptacle to be presented to the city for placing at strategic points about the streets. Stoutly Acting Chairman Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin of the Committee of Twenty denied the imputation of New York papers that the contest was for the purpose of creating the Ash Can Beautiful...
...Corwin, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University is writing an article on "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law," of which a second installment will appear in the January issue of the Law Review. The article will be in non-technical language, so that it may be interesting and understandable to everyone...