Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...endorsed this suggestion editorially, but as far as we can learn, no definite arrangements have been made, either for starting a subscription or choosing a memorial. Unless this is to be left until next year-and such a policy seems unwise-a committee should be chosen to carry the matter through and an opportunity for subscribing should be afforded undergraduates before a large proportion of them finish examinations and leave Cambridge. As the other papers have pointed out, the movement for a memorial should come before another class which knew Dean Shaler is graduated...
...second noteworthy change is found in the tendency toward individual teaching. This is a fearfully expensive improvement, and is the main reason for the increasing cost of an education in this country. But perhaps the chief evidence of progress is found in the change in the matter of discipline and the form and spirit of government in the school...
...Schools, and by the recent founding of a Graduate Scientific School. Is there any reason why a college education, which is now considered preparatory for those taking up professions, should be final for the large proportion of men who enter the business world? It may be objected that no matter how excellent the theoretical training of a graduate business school might be, it would not be equivalent to contact with actual business conditions. It is equally true that no lawyer or doctor is fitted to undertake difficult cases immediately upon receiving his degree. Practical knowledge is everywhere essential...
There will be a rival attraction this afternoon in the intercollegiate meet, but every Freshman should place the athletics of his own class first, and remain in the stands until the last man is retired, no matter which team is ahead...
...more than five or six years since a very large and comprehensive opportunity was given to the undergraduates to criticise the instruction provided for them, though the information thus collected proved less suggestive than had been hoped. If the editorial writer wishes to serve the University in this matter, he will do it better by letting the authorities know how the evils hinted at affect the student rather than by advising changes in that part of our system on which, by the nature of the case, he obviously is not and cannot be well informed...