Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This new R. O. T. C. plan is the sensible and efficient way of using the present to prepare for the future-sensible because it does not interfere with the primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest...
...goes through, examinations will be given in all departments except those listed under Group II in the elective pamphlet, which include the sciences as well as mathematics. Members of the Class of 1922 will be the first men to be affected by the new plan, since men in the present three upper classes will continue under the system which...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...
Under the present system there is no close relationship between instructor and student. A distinct advance could be made by extending the tutorial system now employed in the Division of History, Government and Economics to other departments. But this system should be made for more real and vital; it should be an essential part of the college course, rather than a forgotten fortnightly chore. This would enable the student to come into closer contact with the teacher, who could discuss with him subjects of immediate interest and link them up with his academic work. The tutor could also suggest...
...better position to choose. He should be encouraged to meet more members of the Faculty. There are about half a dozen professors and instructors who meet students informally at definite hours in their homes, and their courses stimulate a larger number of undergraduates than do others. At present, some men go through College without talking to a single instructor and, know by sight, only those with whom they are obliged to take courses...