Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current issue of the North American Review contains an article on "Culture" by President Lowell in which he discusses culture as attained by college and graduate school studies. The following is an extract...
Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
...current issue of the Graduates' Magazine contains a vivid description by Professor R. B. Merriman '96 of his experiences in France and at the French front. Extracts of this article are given below...
...undergraduate is under fire in the current number of The New Republic. He is charged with not taking his curricular duties as seriously as his voluntary outside "activities"; with lacking serious intellectual interests, and with introducing into all of his life the sporting spirit which reigns in athletics. In particular the American undergraduate is compared disadvantageously to his European cousins...
...article in the current issue of "The World's Work". President Lowell makes an appeal to pacifists, preparationists and plain people, to interest themselves in the principles of the League to Enforce Peace, which he with ex-President Taft and others Organized at Philadelphia, in Independence Hall, on June...