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...Inglis Lecture for 1927 will be delivered by Abraham Flexner '06, Secretary of the General Education Board, Wednesday, January 12, at 8 o'clock, in Emerson D. The title of the address is "Do Americans Really Value Education...
...development in the student movement, is largely a following of academic leadership. President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call it a student movement...
...department, George Francis Robinson Heap '28 of Grand Haven Mich.: Walter Egan Trevett '27 of Cleveland, O.; subscriptions. George Lane Glasheen ocC. of Cambridge; James Rayner Harper '28 of Ottumwa, Ia.; Theodore Nelson Stensland '28 of Chicago; properties, Donald Kuinm Howard '28 of Edgewood Pa.; James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City: stage, Marvin Fiske Burt '28, of Freeport, Ill.; George Wing Dryer '27 of Birmingham, Ala.; electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein '28 of Brookline; Francis Neilson Rich '29 of West Orange, N. J.; publicity, John Goldsmith Phillips...
...Flexner '29, with a 6-yard handicap, won the 70-yard dash, followed by H. E. Harris '27 and J. H. Sachs '29. The last two men were assigned handicaps of three and four yards respectively...
...this chaos, Mr. Flexner evolves seven classifications for American universities, the last of which he dubs "athletic and social organizations." Some of the categories are little more than mere trades, almost devoid of intellectual content, while on the other hand some go to the very limit of intellectuality. The remedy he suggests is that the different colleges choose to do different things in their severally appropriate ways...