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...anything but scratch the mater, the course must embrace a longer period than the average college half-course. For it will take a full course to prevent at least half of the male population from acting their customary role of suckers when they select their mate...
...aids in solving difficult and intricate problems; yet it does not touch the greatest of all contributions to thought, that of discovering a wholly new problem to be solved. This, like a work of art or literature, is essentially the creation of a single brain. To select men capable of this, to set them at work in surroundings most adapted to entice and fructify imagination is certainly worth while if it can be done. The plan would be to have the prize-men selected in any subject by a body of older fellows eminent in different fields, upon evidence...
...believe that the tutorial work should be put on the same footing as course work. The tutee and the tutor should select the field they want to cover. There should be a reading list, quizzes and examinations, and a grade should be turned in. Then both tutors and tutees would take the work more seriously. It should be more valuable to the student than a class, as the instruction can be adjusted to the progress the student makes and individual difficulties can be dealt with as they arise...
Named greatest U. S. woman of the century (1832-1932) in a nation-wide free-for-all-women poll to select the twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes. Second with 99,147 was Jane Addams, Others: Clara Barton, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Susan Brownell Anthony, Helen Adams Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mary Lyon, Dr-Mary Emma Woolley...
...unfortunate features of any educational system that the scholarship of the professor is too often confined within the narrow limits of the college. Men who are specialists in their fields devote all their efforts to the teaching of a select group of students, thereby never giving the general public the opportunity of hearing first hand the results of their long years of study. While it is true that the primary duty of the professor is to educate for future generations, still, present day society, in order to meet its problems, should be given all possible benefit of the scholar...