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...cannot commend to your generation the philosophy of my own. What I propose in its stead I can compress in this phrase: 'Be an active, living part of your times...
...process that seems to have followed President Lowell's general rule that "men removed by a few degrees above the savage state, as youths on the eve of graduating from our colleges often are, put up with course amusements only because no refined ones are offered in their stead." Today, for instance, there will be a baseball game instead of the nineteenth century's dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted...
...Economics department is one in which the tutorial program never reached its full fruition; and, when Economics tutorial was abolished a few years ago, a system of section meetings and advisers was substituted in its stead. But this new system has proven inadequate; except in the case of thesis writers, advisers rarely see their advisees at any time other than the quarterly rite of signing study cards. And, because Economics is a popular field, section meetings tend to be large. Personal contact between instructor and student is rare, student participation in section meetings is minimal, and the task of integrating...
...complicated "course reduction" system was in effect, by which a man who wrote a thesis needed fewer than the customary 16 courses to graduate. But the workings of the system proved so complex that at the Student Council's suggestion, the current thesis for honors was established in its stead. By 1941, however, the Faculty voted to abolish this course, but a series of wartime rulings has succeeded in keeping the system alive. Now, with the "duration" rules swept from the books, the thesis for honors course will perish unless a new vote at a mid-May Faculty meeting saves...
Battle Lines. Last week this good will among his membership stood him in good stead. He had announced that the musicians were out of the recording business for good & all. This could be interpreted as meaning that he wanted the companies to discover a way of giving him royalties (now forbidden by the Taft-Hartley Act), and of shouldering the responsibility of suggesting it. Whatever happened would not happen soon. Last week nothing would have horrified the big record producers more than an end to the ban. They had built up huge stockpiles of master recordings, a great many...