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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deal to do with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes...
...reasons for giving course work less emphasis are both mechanical and psychological. Mechanically, as steps toward the mastery of a field, courses seem desirable either as introductory surveys to a general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along...
...table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate the older members...
There are available at the Student Employment Office positions in sales, foreign trade, advertising, investment banking, actuarial work, and other lines, for which there have not been sufficient applicants. New openings have just been listed...
...student body was fortunate in being addressed during the year by Professor L. Sherman Davis, of the University of Indiana, who presented some very interesting research material on nutrition...