Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such a program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow...
...cannot but wonder whether the proposed early specialization will give a college man that subtlety of mind and ease of adjustment which a wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...play in the new work of the world. No matter what he plans to be--business man, statesman, professional man, or anything else--he realizes that his generation will have to face tremendous new problems in every field. This knowledge very naturally brings up in his mind the question: 'Is the college education of today going to help me to meet the problems of tomorrow? Should there not be reconstruction here, too, for shall I not have to relearn much of what I am being taught today, if I am to keep pace with the movement of the world...
...commission for Poland is one of the most important of those appointed by the Allied Peace Conference, and its recommendations in regard to that country are likely to be adopted without question by the Peace Commissioners at Versailles...
...appointments of managers made by the Athletic Committee at its last two meetings were ratified. The Council discussed the question of re-organizing the Union, and appointed the following committee to confer with the Regent in regard to this matter: R. F. Gross '19, chairman, G. C. Barclay '19, A. H. Bright '19, S. R. Dunham '19, J. S. Higgins '20, E. A. Hill '19, and M. A. Shattuck '19. The purpose of this committee is to present to the Regent the undergraduate point of view in regard to the Union and to assist him wherever possible in its reorganization...