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...were just about the same number among ourselves who really care for education. Only there is this difference: they have to struggle along after a day of hard physical labor, picking up what crumbs of knowledge they can find, while we have it handed to us on a silver platter, with a widow to feed us if necessary...
Interchange of ideas is fundamental to a broad education, and the ordinary course at college does not supply that need. It must be left to the individual. Students are so used to having the fruits of learning passed them on a silver platter, that they often forget the necessity of enlarging their mental outlook by private thought and serious discussion...
...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
...CRIMSON nine, heretofore considered peerless among the infra-baseball and ultra-spitball circles of the University, almost met the personification of retributive justice in the extra-inning Phi Beta Kappa team yesterday. It was not until the eighth inning that ex-President Brown pattered across the platter with the winning tally, and the game closed with the score 18 to 17. This afternoon the Knights of the Key meet the Monthly-Advocate litterateurs at 3.30 o'clock...
...French 6: (Assignment of rooms, French 6). Abreu to Parson (inclusive), Sever 23 Powers to Ziegler (inclusive), Sever 24 Physiology 1: (Assignment of rooms, Physiology 1). Alien to Magoun (inclusive), Pierce 209 Marvin to Yamins (inclusive), Pierce 212 Social Ethics 1: (Assignment of rooms, Social Ethics 1). Andrews to Platter (inclusive), Zoological Lecture Room Reynolds to Woodrow (inclusive), Pierce 103 Final Examinations Tomorrow. Chemistry 7, Sever 23 Class. Philol. 48, Sever 23 German 28, Sever 24 Greek G, Sever 24 History 31, Sever 23 Hist. of Religions 4, Sever 24 Land. Arch. 6, Robinson Latin 2b, Sever 17 Mathematics...