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Professor Levy-Bruhl, of the University of Paris has been announced as Exchange Professor from that University, for Dean Henry A Yeomans '00, whose appointment there was recently confirmed. Professor Levy-Bruhl will offer two courses in the department of Philosophy, both of them in the first half-year. One is Course B, the History of Modern Philosophy, and the other is an entirely new course,--16hf, the history of French Philosophy in the ninteenth century. The lectures in this last course will be given in French, and the conferences in English...
...been changed to the History of French Painting, to be given by Assistant Professor Sacs, while Courses 7a, 7b. and 9c, are withdrawn. In the department of Music, Professor Davison's place will be taken by Associate Professor Spalding in Course 2a, who, together with Mr. Ballantine, will offer a new course, on Beethoven. Number 6a is another new one, on the Evolution of Orchestral Style which will be given by Assistant Professor E. B. Hill...
...accessible only to men with an unusual ability for cataloging and remembering facts. The student who lacks enthusiasm for Phi Beta Kappa turns his attention to some college activity other than scholarship where he is stimulated by what he feels to be real competition. These activities, although they offer valuable experience, are not--can never be, a substitute for scholastic work...
...doubt this foreign criticism is exaggerated; the foreigner fails to see any differences because he does not understand us; he see us as a people, not as individuals. Yet, when we examine his statements we find much truth in them. And paramount among the explanations which we can offer for the dearth of individualism in the United States stands our educational system, with its emphasis on the average student. Our colleges seem altogether to encourage a dead-leveling process, which stifles great individual attainment...
...main need of the University is for financial backing. A Corporation composed of men of sound business judgment can do more good than a Corporation composed of intellectuals, who though admirable judges of scholars, cannot offer them a sufficient salary to induce them to devote their energies to Harvard...