Word: students
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the average college teacher is one of nature's noblemen we know. That the average Freshman is susceptible to the highest inspiration, is, though disputed, probably true. And money for books and laboratories and a matrix of student life is not lacking. Where, then, is the trouble (or the source of greatness, in so far as we may be satisfied with the result)? In the philosophy of life presented, I maintain that the basing of ideals, in history, economics, science, literature and personal attitude upon individual spirituality, is doubly vicious; because, at its utmost flowering, it manifests itself...
...first place, our system of education has become passive; it lacks spontaneity. More than one professor has likened it to the process of eating. Educative food is held out by the faculty in conveniently-sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated...
...undesirable as an end of education were it not for a materialistic connotation that has grown up with the word. On this basis, college courses offer the means only for intensive and specialized preparation for particular branches of service. Compulsory distribution seldom insures in the average student an intelligent conception of what part he will play in the work of the world or the relation of his labor to that of other people. In other words, the ordinary college graduate lacks that comprehensive view, that general synthesis of human knowledge and understanding which is essential for the intelligent performance...
...work is, of course, wholly voluntary, but the Committee offers to send in return any information about currents of opinion in France which its correspondents may desire. This seems a good opportunity of doing a service to France at very little trouble to the individual student, who, according to his opportunities, might specialize in clippings bearing on one or more topics from the list given below...
...result of the five-weeks' competition which has just ended, Henry Seranno Villard '21, of New York City, has been appointed manager, and John Brooks Fenno, Jr., '21, of Boston, assistant manager of the swimming team, subject to the approval of the Student Council and the Athletic Committee...