Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of such a room give to it a sort of mystic unapproachability inconsistent with every-day use. Nothing could be more unfortunate, and efforts should be made at the outset to reduce all possibility of such a situation to a minimum. For it is by the general interest and support of the student body that the success of such a thing as a poetry reading room is to be judged...
...liberal arts, Dr. Carl Franzen of the University of Indiana heralds an age of further specialization in the schools. If the proposal made to the American Association of University Professors indicates the trend to be followed, the questionable soundness of the proposition becomes of more than theoretical interest. To cut the collegiate side of University training to a two year general pre-professional course would seem to be heading the university back towards the state in which Francis Bacon found it in the sixteenth century...
Senator Couzens' establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...
...policy, formerly pursued by the University, of giving books within a student's particular field of concentration has been somewhat changed this year, and instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund...
...obvious remedy for this privation as seen by the individual, is to cut down his science courses to a minimum and concentrate in some field which holds less interest for him. Not only does this involve personal hardship, but it loses for the science departments many men who might later be a credit and a source of strength to them. Only from motives of self interest then and even without any consideration for the rights or convenience of individuals, the authorities in charge would seem to be justified in a relaxation of the restrictions now imposed on laboratory working time...