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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intramural athletics. While Graduate Treasurer, in 1909 Mr. Garcelon started the present Freshman athletic class. He advocates that this work, now, entirely voluntary be amplified and made compulsory. "The solution of the problem of intramural athletics," said Mr. Garcelon, "the way to turn the attention of the 'bleacher student' from the college teams and center it on his own activities, is not through the speeches and magazine articles which have continued for years, nor through the radical alteration of any of the features of the 'big games,' nor through dumb-bell exercises and calisthenics; the practical method to bring this...
...program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow the path...
...this conception we find President Hadley planning for Yale a course of instruction which makes specialization its cardinal principle. A series of pre-professional studies will be required of the first- or second-year undergraduate. In taking up these subjects before the close of his college career, the student will be enabled to complete his professional training sooner. This is distinctly contrary to our conception of college education. On the one hand we find Yale embarking upon a system of early professionalism, and on the other hand we find Harvard clinging to the doctrine of "liberal education...
There are several contributed articles. An intimate view is given of the life of Theodore Roosevelt as an undergraduate. It is a fitting tribute to the Rooseveltian qualities of leadership. Captain Andre Morize--now Professor Morize--has written concerning the role and duty of the student--the conception should be the same as for the role of the soldier. Harvard men will listen with eagerness to the words of Professor Morize. President Mclaurin of Technology issues a call for democratic, universal military training so long as war is a possibility...
...races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes the way for those behind. If a student is merely "getting by" he is a liability to himself and to the University whose advantages he simply prevents someone else from obtaining. The win-the-war need for moral effort is past, but the need for moral effort exists as strongly as before. The student who merely aims...