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The dean's office had shown recently that it is anxious to abolish the penalty of probation. This tendency is in line with the growing relaxation of parietal control, and it leads, as is proper, to the placing of greater responsibility on the undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent...
There is the further fault that the six important figures are studied not in relation to the history of thought or as the products of their eras, but too much as individual, isolated minds. In attempting to understand the significance of a man's thought one must know something of...
Mr. Davis' speech was dignified, scholarly, slightly trite. His delivery was frequently impeded by a choking cough. He divided Republican rule into three eras ?"Dark Betrayal'' (1920-24), "Smug Self-Complacency" (1924-29), "Wild Dismay" (1929-32).
Premises. The modernizing of higher education in the U. S. has everywhere had the same aims: to free the capable student from the drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent...
William Harlan Hale, one of the editors, berated the university in an essay of eight pages for building in the style of a bygone day. "No man and no nation who possessed a life-giving creative sense ever dreamed of copying the previous age", he said. "We associate the phenomenon...