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Fondly, in days past, have we gazed upon nine typewriters, five telephones, one picture (framed) of the 1898 Princetonian Board, and two copies of the 1924-1925 Who's Who and said: this is life, this is glamorous romance, this is newspaper work. But lately our fondness has given way to despair, our feelings have become saddened. And it's all because we must sit silently by and watch our office turn into a Lost Souls Department, a sort of Court of Last Resort...
...understand it is a style-book rule at the post-office that, whenever a letter or post-card arrives that the mailman doesn't know what to do with, it is to be delivered immediately to the Princetonian...
Early this fall the "Princetonian" commented editorially on the educational experiment of a Syracuse professor, who has abolished note-taking during his lectures and substituted a printed resume of his course for distribution among the students taking it. At that time we reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal...
...lecturing to empty seats, the latter by premature ejection from the realms of higher education. The true understanding of a subject, as demanded by Princeton's educational ideal, can no more be obtained from a skeletal outline of its material than from an indiscriminate list of its facts. --Daily Princetonian...
...Princeton during these reading periods would of course be necessary. This could be accomplished by a system of weekly consultations in the various courses, at which students would at least be required to report, with the additional advantage of guidance in reading and study if so desired. --The Daily Princetonian...