Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to this test on the related fields that most of the criticisms have arisen. Honors men particularly find it difficult at the conclusion of a year in, which they have had to write a thesis and study a great deal in a special field to cover all the work of their own department not to mention the "related" ones. Review can at best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject...
...substitute certain course requirements which would cover the ground. But this suggestion is hardly in line with the increasing emphasis toward tutorial work as distinguished from mere counting of courses. Another solution might lie in giving these examinations at the conclusion of the Sophomore or Junior year so that men would have a fresher knowledge of the subjects and would have more leisure to prepare for them. While there is much to be said for such a plan the experiences of other departments with Junior Divisional should be carefully weighed before their extension to this division is considered...
...after all the only thing that needs to be said is that Arnold Horween has shown that football is still a game that men can play with pleasure...
...increasing trend toward concentration in Economics shown in the recently published figures of the Committee on the Choice of Electives might at first appearances seem to indicate an increased desire on the part of college men to be well acquainted with modern affairs. But unfortunately many of these men are interested in Economics because they believe it to be an open sesame to a fortune or else a direct preparation for the Law and Business School. Such narrowing influences should be avoided...
Professors in the Department of Economics protest against this influx of prospective millionaires. Moreover the reports of the Business School show that the previous field of concentration of their students has no effect on the quality of the work they produce. Men who concentrate in Economics for purely materialistic reasons obviously miss what they most hope to obtain...