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...would very likely ever see. It was signed by 150 U. S. Protestant churchmen and pedagogs, men of the calibre of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Dewey, Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman, Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco, President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Agitated as U. S. churchmen often are with the moral aspects of foreign affairs, the letter signers felt that the Spanish pastoral needed rebutting...
President Conant with a few introductory remarks next presented the principal speaker of the evening, William A. Neilson, president of Smith College. Displaying a wit which matched his wisdom, President Neilson offered advice to the Freshmen with which to start their college career. At the beginning of his talk, Neilson remarked that some day President Conant will realize that what is said to the Freshmen on their first night at college doesn't matter in the least for they will promptly forget...
...graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Harvard, Neilson was for many years in the English department of Harvard's faculty, leaving that position to become president of Smith College. "Heretofore, you have been devoting yourself to the great art of 'getting by' "he said. Now it is time for the student to abandon one way of thinking as he enters college and taking another. He declared that one must attempt to master a subject rather than just think of getting safely through tomorrow's recitation...
President Neilson expressed the belief that marks and grades are an evil, but apparently a necessary evil as the outside world demands some certificate of the student's knowledge and ability. He also emphasized the necessity of carefully planning efforts and time if the student wishes to be successful. More opportunities will be offered than can be taken advantage of, and one must therefore attempt to select the right ones to pursue...
Hale and spry at 68, President Neilson walks to his office in the morning, works until one o'clock with ten minutes off for milk and crackers, works all afternoon- sometimes so long that his wife appears to coax him home. He keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been...