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...Point. The task can be more effectively accomplished after the men leave the Academy, in a school specially adapted to the purpose. But the plan as a whole he commends, principally because "it provides for employment in time of peace of a considerable force which, in case of public need, could be at once turned to the uses...
...boys gather to listen to him as chaplain of the Polytechnic School. Apart from other work, however, he is president of the "Grindewald Conferences," which last summer numbered 2500 of the most prominent religious leaders of all denominations from Europe and America. He will show in his address the need of this union and the essential points on which all Christians agree. It can not but be of interest to Harvard men, especially as it comes from one who has a very complete knowledge of the subject...
...charge of his courses. Would it not conduce to more conscientious work on the part of a student, would not his interest be heightened if his instructors made it a point occasionally to tell him what they thought of his work, whether it were good, poor or indifferent? They need not necessarily talk to him of his work in terms of A's or B's, C's, D's or E's. But they could do something to let him know that he is not simply passing in his work to a sort of unfeeling machine which, having...
...last fall and has been resting all winter; it is hoped that he can get back his old-time speed of 1893. Certain it is that Yale has been in sad want of a winning sprinter during the past year. Besides the dashes, Captain Hickok is the most in need of men in the half-mile run and mile walk. Woodhull, the half-mile man, is in college, but it is said his father will not allow him to train. Thrall is expected to do well in the walk, but he is the only man in sight just at present...
...address the Harvard Pedagogical Club today at 4.30 in Sever 11. Subject: "Some Effects of the Enrichment of the Course of Study." Mr. Dutton is one of the foremost school superintendents in New England and is an interesting and forcible speaker. He was among the first to recognize the need of enriching the elementary curriculum and he has been working for some years at the practical enrichment of the course of study in the Brookline schools, which now rank with the best in the country. All members of the University are invited to be present to hear this prominent educational...