Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Spinster factory" was the name applied to a woman's college last year. "Cooperation is one of the largest lessons one can get from colleges," thus spoke Miss Marguerite Kimball, president of the Alumnae association before two generations of Radcliffians. From this point of view--the idea that a college...
Perfect justice in the public recognition of merit is as impossible in the academic sphere as it is in the world at large. Nevertheless, any formal recognition which obviously falls short of a reasonable degree of justice is bound to lose much of its meaning. This has been the case...
In being deprived of the privileges of the House Libraries dropped Freshmen are placed under a serious and unnecessary handicap. Except for Widener, they have access only to the Freshmen libraries, which naturally are stocked with books for Freshmen courses alone. Since the dropped Freshman seldom takes more than one...
The Translator. Archeologist by trade and inclination, Lawrence (he has not yet written a book signed "Shaw") originally intended to be only an archeological author. One of the books which he has never found time to write was to prove that the dating of ancient pottery in England is all...
During the length of years into which his administration has extended President Lowell has become identified in the outside world with the ideas of educational progress that now appear overpoweringly necessary in an era of material change. To those now within the University he signifies that forethought, courage, and vision...