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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to his other work Dr. Hale was actively connected with several magazines, and he published a number of books and short stories. The best-known of these are "The Man Without a Country," "Ten Times Ten," "Memories of a Hundred Years" and "Modern Achievements...
...wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time...
...short, if a difficult theoretical subject like logic or psychology or history of philosophy is really to reach a large number of beginners, it would be absurd for the instructor to feel influenced by such negative votes, unless he knew the quality of the voter. Above all it would be dangerous for our elective system, if serious students were guided by such a commentary in the choice of their courses. There may be poor courses in the University, but the chances are great that this kind of canvassing with this kind of answering and tabulating entirely distorts the picture...
...education as our most important industry. The achievements of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been great--greater even than the public is aware. Not only does the institute each year send out its young men to place their skilled services at the disposal of the world, but the number of her faculty have constantly--and often without remuneration--been solving problems which contribute materially to our welfare and the progress of the world. Absorbed in their work, the modesty of the professors has in a measure obscured the reputation of the institution of which they form a part. Higher...
...rapidly increasing number of men who take their degrees in three years renders some change in the system of conferring almost inevitable, and that in the near future. Many men at the close of their Junior year are forced to choose between the easy, happy life of a Senior, and the more secluded, studious life of a member of a graduate school. The considerations which influence their decision may best be summarized as financial, athletic and social. They are too well known to need discussion...