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The perplexing problem which was at the root of the present vague discontent with things educational has never been better stated nor more boldly met than in the editorial reprinted below from the Williams Record. The tasks of teaching men "how to live and how to make a living" are...
"There is coming a time when Williams College, having reached the parting of the ways, will have to choose between two principles of education; modern vocationalism or old-fashioned humanism. She cannot straddle both policies if she is to stand upright in character and individuality. Of course there is always...
One is tempted to linger over the editorials and reviews, for reasons which will become apparent. Under the chastely classical heading of "47 Obitt", the editors bestrew the grave of the Workshop with a few choice pleas and wave the reader on to more extended articles on the subject in...
An eventuality of this sort cannot be too greatly deplored in advance. The main purpose of any university worthy the name is not special training, but the diffusion of a broad, liberal education, and the fostering of an idealistic humanism. Not until everything possible has been done to further the...
The outstanding feature of the exhibit is a book issued by the Harvard Press which received the medal awarded to the best volume printed under ordinary trade conditions, and not in a limited edition. The book is "Dr. Johnson: a study in Eighteenth Century Humanism", by Percy M. Houston; it...