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...conference is so constructed that while the Daily Princetonian, the Yale News, and the CRIMSON select and invite groups of professors and eminent guests to the meetings, there is nevertheless provision made for exceptionally qualified undergraduates to take part in the discussions. Twenty-five students from each college will be delegates to the conference, and selection of the Harvard group will not be made until after the spring recess...
Although the Houses aim at a cross-section as a desirable goal, they nevertheless differ considerably in composition. For example, Eliot House at present has a larger proportion of men from the "exclusive" private schools than the other Houses, and Lowell has a larger percentage in the upper reaches of the rank list than has the college as a whole. These are indications of certain differences in entrance criteria, although the Housemasters have declined to state these discrepancies, since such a revelation might smack of competitive advertising...
Stephens Junior College in Columbia, Mo. is a "progressive" finishing school, attended by the daughters of well-to-do doctors, lawyers, diplomats, Army and Navy officers. Less costly ($950 a year) and less swank than such Eastern schools as Miss Porter's (Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being...
This shortcoming is by no means totally absent in the natural sciences; particularly in the biological sciences a good memory is the most essential weapon with which to fight an exam. Nevertheless, the laboratory periods counteract many evils, forcing the student as they do to solve the problem on his own by applying what he has learnt. The social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their...
Trailing Army and Navy, the fencing team nevertheless came out ahead of Yale and Princeton in the Annual Pentagonal Meet at Annapolis March 4. The Varsity's only defeat this year was at the hands of Seton Hall by the narrow margin...