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Even to the rest, however, the value of a slight knowledge of any language is at best small, especially when that knowledge is obtained under compulsion. The danger moreover, as today's survey shows of neither language being learned well is often great. As long as Harvard cannot require that two languages be mastered by her students, there is little value in her requiring that two be at least dabbled in. Opportunity will always remain for the aspirant to bilingural attainments--many others would prefer to concentrate on perfecting their knowledge of a single tongue...
...activities. The compromise that must be effected between rival interests is a problem that, if worked out for himself, can be of the greatest value to the student. No matter what career he takes up, some day the question of apportioning his time will become the vital issue and often success or failure may depend on his solution. To attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students through a common...
...jaunty but therapeutically casual days of the 17th century two men often sat late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle...
Charles liked his leech. The man had a visible vitality which often translated itself into swift rages and quick passes with the dagger at his side. It is not recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit...
While students who come to Harvard often find the problem of adjustment to strange conditions extremely difficult, a scarcely less numerous body, better prepared for college work, find themselves seriously disappointed in their expectations of college by the large proportion of elementary work which occupies their Freshman year. The outstanding problems of the first year at Harvard are thus of a twofold nature: the difficulty of abrupt transition for the immature or ill prepared student, and the lack of inspiration and of insight into his future work offered the more advanced student. While neither of these problems can be entirely...