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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee has recently been named for the formation of a national association of university professors, an organization that aims to strengthen the conception of the professors' status. Its purpose is indicated by a circular letter lately sent out by the Johns Hopkins professors. The purport of this letter was that the university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian...
...English has selected the subject "Panama" for the poems to be submitted this year by undergraduates for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize consisting of $100 and a silver medal. Each poem should not exceed '50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer as well as the assumed name. All manuscripts should be left at University 20, at the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty not later than 5 o'clock on April...
...editor of any Harvard publication, and I am not writing this letter to defend any editorial board. But it has appeared to me after three years of assiduous perusal of almost all the publications here, together with their reviews as published in the CRIMSON, that some one ought to caution the undergraduates against the majority of the reviewers. In his honest review of the Advocate, published in the CRIMSON, March 7, Doctor Maynadier has this sentence, pregnant with uncommonly good sense: "Any officer of the College, even 'the young assistant,' must have a point of view so different from that...
...imposed upon them, and, strange though it may seem to "the young assistant," one cannot grow up in a night--even after a scathing review of his "immature" style. It has grown upon me, as I have looked through the files of the CRIMSON reviews, preparatory to writing this letter, that the only persons to be trusted with a pen in criticising undergraduate literary efforts are professors, out a dozen or more years--or undergraduates. The most honest, and least superficial reviews of the year have been written by Professor Neilson, Dr. Maynadier, P. W. Thayer...
Anyone interested in this idea is requested to communicate with me by letter, and I will go into the details of the scheme, which is at present not advanced to the point where direct offers can be made. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART...