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...desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Restricts | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...usually he comes to one of the following conclusions: it is the weather; it is divisionals; it is tutorial reading; it is just plain intellectual fatigue. In all of which he is partly right. Some time ago the CRIMSON mentioned the chronic case of college cramp, affecting the University. Spring has not yet come to cure that ill.. So dog days continue to rule. Yet even the very least of university Pollyannas must remember that canines, though necessary beings, are not, after all, the most delightful companions when they continue to growl like child Menckens. The weather is rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOG DAYS | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...resignation of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart from the University has as its most minor result the edict from the managing editor bidding me to cramp my style this morning. Professor Hart has long been a friend to academic vagabonds, and it would be hard to give him higher praise than to say that he has given many of them a purpose and a reason in their strolling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/5/1926 | See Source »

...comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VEILING OF WISDOM | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...work. He is getting ideas. And most of this profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art is due primarily to a lack of sane and sufficient standards, of sane and sufficient thinking. As an undergraduate he is free to learn these standards, to absorb that sanity. So his college cramp may not--in the end--be more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary art. "Man is a thinking being"--college cramp is the coercive restraint of university skepticism upon the creative mind. Does he weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE CRAMP | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

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