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...general knowledge during some definite period of the college years that precede the intensive specialization of graduate study and professional training. Such an organization of subject matter could be made possible only by the courageous willingness of educators to be tentatively dogmatic in saying what subject matter will best induct the student into an understanding of his contemporary world, of the forces that have gone into its making from the past, and of the living forces that are most likely to determine its future...
...subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...
...Middletown, Conn., on June 5, another young man will undertake a task of magnitude. On that day, as successor to her late President, William Arnold Shanklin, Wesleyan College will induct the incumbent (1918-25) of the presidency of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Dr. James L. McConaughy, 37, Yale graduate, Rotarian, onetime Professor of English and Education at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Knox...
...powers of Boston University assembled in Old South Church to induct as their first dean of women Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Franklin, lately Dean of Women at Evansville College (Ind.). The dean-to-be made a short address: ". . . every educator hopes to see, both in industry and education, the restoration of the joy and holiness of hard labor...
...President of the Board of Overseers," to quote from Mr. Thayer, "it fell to Governor Long to induct Abbott Lawrence Lowell into the office of President of Harvard College, a duty which he performed with memorable impressiveness." Among other honors held by Governor Long was the presidency of the Phi Beta Kappa...