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With the announcement of the results of the Putnam competition, our faith in the tutorial system has been greatly strengthened. The fact that Harvard won the first intercollegiate brain contest gives evidence of the asset which is acquired from a background of extensive tutorial reading. Indeed the time may come when Radcliffe will meet an opponent on this same field, especially since several women's colleges are now introducing the tutorial system. As both Radcliffe and Wellesley are famed for their English departments, we venture to predict a competition between these...
...scholastic contest, the first of its kind ever held in this country, was established this year through a fund given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam. The income of this $125,000 endowment will be used, this year, to give books to the members of both teams, and the sum of $5,000 will be set aside for the purchase of books by Widener Library...
...RoomB Entry T. O. Frazier 24C Entry R. S. Balch 23STANDISHA Entry Sumner Putnam 25B Entry G. A. Donaldson 32C Entry J. B. Garrison 12D Entry J. B. Gregg 34E Entry H. P. Nichols 11HAMILTONA Entry P. H. Hoey 23B Entry F. C. Troll B-43C Entry J. S. Frame c-44D Entry R. H. MacKiunon 14MORRISA Entry R. O. Williams 41B Entry A. H. Donahey 14C Entry J. D. Kenney 11D Entry R. G. West 32E Entry T. F. Lynch 42F Entry N. W. Hinkle...
...considerable attention given the meet in the press and it was almost entirely in a mood of skeptical humor. But, according to the report a great amount of undergraduate enthusiasm attended the unique battle, from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy in extent. And insofar as this interest holds, Mrs. Putnam's idea is psychologically sound. It only awaits the prestige which age will bring...
...Putnam apparently did not see this aspect of the college situation at all: she was interested in directly stimulating attention to studies. But she has done better than she know. She has strengthened a professional bugabear until it is threatening to bite the professors. Come to think of it, a public review of what is being taught in the classrooms seem an eminently healthful development...