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...spring of 1872, an agitation arose over the formation of a boat club to advance Dartmouth interests. The college knew nothing of boating from a scientific standpoint, but a great deal of enthusiasm was aroused and the Dartmouth Boat Club was organized on September...
...This volume . . . is a collection of articles outlining the concepts of the case method by men who have had actual experience in its application. Although the ideas expressed are apparently diverse, they are in agreement in their emphasis on the great elasticity of the medium from the pedagogical standpoint and on the high degree of student interest developed by the use of cases...
...undergraduate, who plays the game, or watches it or refuses to watch it, is strangely apart from all this turmoil and controversy. The collegiate balloon of football sentiment has been pricked sometimes during the last decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
Exactly as though they had been sentenced to Death in China, the six Chinese chained up in front of the French Hospital at Vila had their heads chopped off in the good old Chinese way. From a French standpoint the execution was a triumph. It harmonized with the French Government's traditional policy of observing native customs in French colonies wherever possible. But British residents of Vila were furious...
...Prohibition, it said. "Side by side with . . . misery and idleness, there are warehouses bursting with goods . . . ; breadlines; . . . jobless men; money in abundance. . . . The conception of society as made up of autonomous independent individuals ... is as faulty from the point of view of economic realism as it is from the standpoint of Christian idealism. Our traditional philosophy of rugged individualism must be modified...