Word: roome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory for all to delve into the mysteries of chemistry, or engineering sciences. In a university such as this there is certainly room for a new branch of learning; and if we are to take up a subject, it is infinitely to our advantage to have it well taught. Secondly it is important to note that the advent of the Artillery School will in no way disrupt the progress of courses in the University...
...attendance of over 450 persons packed the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre in the first public performance of "Crowns and Clowns" last night. Never before in the history of Pudding plays has a Cambridge audience been so large. Although the sign "Standing Room Only" was put up at 7.45 it had to be taken down fifteen minutes later...
...Louis Blaringhem, Professor of Agricultural Biology at the Sorbonne, and Exchange Professor at the University for 1918-19, will give the second of a series of ten lectures in French on "The Condition and Future of Agriculture in France," in Room A, Emerson Hall, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...believe that the fault does not rest entirely with the undergraduate. Of course, it is inevitable that some men will take a more active interest in scholarship than others; the point is to increase the average interest, and to break down the wall which now exists between the lecture room and life...
...Faculty to act in a tutorial capacity. At Oxford, men of real ability are tutors, and the system there causes men to believe vitally in the reality of their studies. A frequent conference of one-half hour's duration is more valuable than hours spent in the lecture room, and hence it is very much to the point, that the best men devote some time to conferences even though this may mean reducing the number of hours they spend in lecturing...