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Walking encyclopedias who spout names and dates and other people's theories are plodding along today in the field of social sciences according to Professor Mather in a recent interview on concentration and distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, claimed that science, better than anything else, teaches students to think clearly. "So many men who have concentrated in history or government, for example, become walking encyclopedias. They spout dates, facts, and other persons' theories, but have not learned to think for themselves. In the science lab the student learns to work out his own problems by himself...
...Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...
...knows he ought to get down to business. But he also knows he can't dictate subjects to himself. And today just seems to be not his day to rave of scholastic oratory. It's Saturday--the first one of the New Year--and the Vag will probably spout about more vital matters. Such as football...
...rich Russia- should go in for wood-burning motor trucks Moscow observers easily explained. The mighty Soviet oil fields do not of course spout gasoline; Russian cracking plants have given trouble; the gasoline has to be shipped thousands of miles; but almost everywhere in Russia wood is abundant...