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...criticism of college official publications--the "course" pamphlets--which was published in a recent number of the Alumni Bulletin is worthy of much consideration. The criticism applies particularly to those courses open to Freshmen, and is so applied by the author of the Communication, Mr. George Woodbridge. Undergraduates who have been at the University for a year or more, or even for a few months, form a habit of asking other undergraduates about the content of a course. Thence evolves the neo-professional informer who has every "snap" and "stiff" course at his finger-tips. For this reason...
There is no need of handing over the pamphlet to a professional advertisement writer and asking him to give it a severe injection of "pep". On the other hand it is poor policy to make the "big stick" the most apparent thing in the descriptions. It would seem feasible to print a special pamphlet for incoming freshmen with a full description of the content of each possible freshman course. The description alone will be sufficient attraction without further flourishes and furbelows or more or less veiled threats of probation...
Willard Huntington Wright, American esthete and critic, offers an ingenious interpretation and forecast of modern art, in his latest pamphlet...
...which attracts the students. Just so did the serious-minded youths in olden days gather at the feet of the sages to harked to their words, whether they talked of mathematics or philosophy or medicine. For whatever they said was worth considering. The caption, English Composition, in the Elective Pamphlet fails completely to describe English 12. What of the "evenings" which form an integral part of the course? What of the personal conferences in which the fearful author is forced to see himself in the Mirror of Truth? And what of the wit and humor of his lectures? For beside...
Students are requested to keep for reference during the current academic year the Announcement of Courses of Instruction, dated September 17, 1923, which pamphlet they will receive when they register, since no other edition of this pamphlet will be issued, and the present supply is limited. CLIFFORD H. MOORE...