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This is the simplest and by far the most rational plan of dealing with increased enrollment, theoretically at least. But there are several obstacles one of them particularly embarassing. Where is the money to come from for the establishment of these new college units? Legislative appropriations for institutions of higher learning are being cut down all over the country. There are too may war debts to be paid to spend much money for education...
...efficient use of the library's equipment. As matters stand at present, the first man to reach Widener after the reading is assigned gets the book; the rest of the course must do without it. Occasionally one sees undergraduates taking the same course engaged in what reduced to its simplest terms is nothing more than a race to the Catalogue. Some instructors have already met the difficulty by reserving all copies of the selected works for the general reading room before announcing the reading: this practice should be generally adopted...
...courses in design take up nearly half the total time of the student and include the planning and exterior design of buildings from the simplest summer house to elaborate institutional groups, and the student is given ample opportunity to use all his intelligence, ingenuity, and creative talent in the arrangement and decoration of a great variety of buildings. To give students an opportunity for comparison of their work with that of other architectural schools, the problems in design are most of them given jointly by committee from the school, from the Dept. of Architecture at the Mass, Inst. of Technology...
Those who wanted a "record-breaking" inaugural reckoned without Mr. Harding. He put an end to the bickering which has occupied the attention of several Senators for some time, by communicating his wish to the Inaugural Committee that the program be the "simplest consistent with the actual requirements in taking office and the utterance of befitting address." The next President shows no interest in the idea of erecting stands and platforms, or organizing a gigantic parade for the populace, of holding an expensive inaugural ball. Instead of being the center of the show, he would prefer "to be simply sworn...
There is no doubt that Gray's words go straight to the heart, for they embody in simplest fashion the most universal experience of human nature. His "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen," "Some mute inglorious Milton," "The rude forefathers of the hamlet," "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," are quoted and loved the world over. The most attractive edition of the "Elegy" ever printed. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.00. Special price...