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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...group I: English 41 will not be given; English 26 hf., Contemporary Literature, English and American, is a new course; French 3 and 4 will meet three instead of four times a week; Comparative Literature 19 hf., The Forms of the Drama, will be open for the first time to undergraduates; Fine Arts 1f., Principles of Landscape Architecture, is given for the first time in the College; Fine Arts 3c hf., The Athenian Acropolis, will be a new course...
...lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will lecture on "International Reconstruction After the War" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Dickinson is a recognized authority on the subject of international relations, and has been associated with a group of international thinkers in England. He is also a member of the advisory council of the council for the study of international relations. Aside from being a lecturer, Mr. Dickinson is an author of considerable renown, both in this country and abroad. This is his third visit to the United...
...evening courses are given at present, but they are practically all in the Primarily-for-Graduates group. If some undergraduate courses, morning as well as afternoon, were moved to the evening, the efficiency of undergraduate life would be increased. The amount of scurrying around the Yard, commuting between classes in the good study hours of the morning, would be reduced. A man who has two non-consecutive morning lectures, unless he is more systematic than is usual, finds they consume his entire morning. And on the other hand, three or four consecutive classes make too great a strain...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...Dinner, Finance, and Red Book Committees have been chosen, and will begin work immediately. The Finance Committee is being organized on the competitive system which proved effective in the same department last year. The members of the committee make collections, and those collecting the most are made chairmen of groups which continue to collect money and compete for the group leadership...