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...Salient Wigginisms included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers' Outlook | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...salient advantages of the plan is the effect it will have upon graduate schools. Chicago has done away with these departments, but has established in their place courses of "more advanced study," which only those of unusual ability may take. The type of scholar in these courses will, of necessity, be more able and intelligent than under the present system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SEARCH FOR EDUCATION | 11/26/1930 | See Source »

...article printed elsewhere in today's CRIMSON on the subject of Naval and Military Science, reveals the numerous attractions that are dangled before the eyes of prospective students to induce them to enroll in these courses. One of the most salient points brought out in that comment is the method by which these courses were awarded college credit. During the war so many students were enrolled in Military Science and so much of their time was occupied in this subject that it was absolutely necessary to give academic credit so that the course requirements for a degree could be fulfilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE ELEPHANTS | 11/21/1930 | See Source »

Henry Killam Murphy is to give a lecture entitled "Chinese Architecture, with an analysis of its salient features, both structural and decorative and examples of its application in working drawings in modern buildings. The lecture is conducted under the auspices of the School of Architecture and will be delivered in the large lecture room in Robinson Hall on Tuesday November 18 it is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Chinese Architecture | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

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