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Attention has been focused more and more on tutorial, affecting the minds or faculty and students alike, with the result that courses now offer less than a balanced diet. In many departments the tutorial idea has taken such deep roots that classes seem to be unconsciously regarded by the lecturer as a part to which the tutorial forms an inseperable complement. In some courses one is forced to conclude that, as far as an academic education is concerned, the man on the platform looks upon the tutorial system as the backbone and his lectures as somewhat unnecessary and irksome supplements...
More fortunate were Joseph Bosco and Percy Wells, middle-aged railroad workers, whose $150,000 prize was intact because they had refused an offer of $15,000 for the ticket before the race...
Promptly the dead monster's manager offered the body to famed Tulane University in New Orleans, "because Jack always wished some school be given the opportunity to study his glandular system."* The surviving next of kin, Sister Katharine Eckert, 74, of Fort Wayne, Ind., agreed. But Tulane refused the offer because fat cadavers are useless for the study of anatomy. Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical...
Tulane's diffidence toward the offer of Jack's corpse was not without significance, for the whole subject of cadavers used by students of anatomy is one which medical school authorities understandably dislike airing in public. Yet since the 1880s the business has been aboveboard and regulated by statutes. Before then all U. S. medical schools relied mainly on body snatchers for their corpses. Bodies sold for dissection usually came from undertaking parlors and graveyards. As late as 1893 when Johns Hopkins Medical School was opened, the 1,200 students in Baltimore's medical schools...
...essential features of the plan which goes into effect next year, are, briefly, as follows. All concentrators in fields which have general examinations will be given full time instruction during the sophomore year so as to offer every student the advantage, of thorough tutorial work for at least one year and also to enable each department to determine under which plan of instruction (A or B) a student will obtain the education best suited to this abilities. After the sophomore year those upperclassmen who give evidence of being able to profit from a type of tutorial instruction which places...