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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideas, but rather it is an integral part of the system of philosophy which is brought to an magnificent completion in this work. This, while on the surface the first section, called Sociological, of the book is a history of the gradual realisation in fact of the Platonic-Christian ideal of the dignity of the human soul, it is, underneath, a justification of Professor Whiteheadi's extreme rationalism, showing that the most abstract ideas, if they are of the right sort, do eventually have a strictly every-day usefulness. The second section, likewise, is a history of cosmologies...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

...From an ideal standpoint it is clearly desirable that greater weight be given to tutorial work. The difficulty is the practical one of how to accomplish this. Each tutor, it is argued, is so prejudiced in favor of his own tutees that in many cases his remarks are about as reliable as the eyewash found in the ordinary business letter of recommendation. That this should be true is not surprising in view of the fact that at present all the tutor is asked for is in effect a letter of recommendation. The CRIMSON has suggested before in this and other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORIAL AND SCHOLARSHIPS | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

This is the gist of an argument as familiar as it is logical--pathetically logical because pragmatic considerations engulf the ideal. It is a stirring claim that for the good of society the college should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TRUTH WITH GOLD" | 4/14/1933 | See Source »

...hoped that the range of choice will not continue to be limited in these ways, else the gap between the ideal propounded a few months ago, and the reality now emerging, will become more and more painful. Criticism can not be very severe against the present choices in themselves, but it has every right to be, as they measure up to a special expectation. In all but one instance, these men, exceptional as their records are, have been subjected to the older sort of graduate work. Particular conditions of study planned for the Fellows must have a changing influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOCIETY OF FELLOWS | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

President Lowell presided, and the invocation was given by William Lawrence '71, bishop of Massachusetts. The opening address was delivered by Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, whose subject was "Unity as an Educational Ideal." He was followed by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, discussing "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopkins, Donham Speak at 25th Anniversary of Business School | 4/11/1933 | See Source »

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