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...first time is several years, copy for the Harvard University Register will be in the hands of the printers before the end of the spring term preceding publication. Last night, the club and extra curricula activity lists were forwarded to New Haven where next year's volume will be set up and printed...
...With the cooperation of the heads of the 28 colleges in New England the committee proposes to insert into the curricula of the colleges vocational work of a sort that will enable the doubtful undergraduate to consider the various fields of vocational activity in the light of his own tastes and abilities, and thereby, guided by advice of men in the field which he prefers, make a wiser choice of a life-work than he might otherwise do. This establishment in the college curricula of vocational work must be very gradual, but the plan was proposed to the representatives...
...committees have been formed to secure information regarding conditions in locations where young college men might find vocational opportunities. This information will be published and sent to the colleges, where it will be used in planning the vocational work of the curricula. By this means first-hand knowledge of conditions existing in all fields may be brought home to the undergraduate, and influence him in making his final choice of his life-work...
...gathering in December, the Federation has been fortunate in procuring President MacCracken of Vassar, Professor Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, and President Little of Michigan. These men will present various views upon the main topics of the Congress The Function of a University, The Influence of Extra-Curricula Activities upon College Life, The Place of Athletics in Education. Nor are these subjects which fail either in suggestiveness or practicality. If the undergraduate is to share in the development of his own institution of learning in a same and constructive fashion, these are topics vital to his interests...
...Oregon and Bowdoin, at Yale, at Harvard (TIME, April 19), undergraduate committees had seen fit to scrutinize the curricula minutely and to formulate suggestions that ranged all the way from establishing special readings in modern fiction to dividing one university (Harvard) into smaller socioeducational units...