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...American Architecture" is, in the first place, not a text-book for architectural school students. Rather is it a history and critique of architecture. The problems discussed are those which would interest the student of art, perhaps the architect, certainly not the contractor. The questions discussed are matters of taste, with but few blue-prints. In brief, the book is written for the layman...
Postal ballots for the election of the 1929 Student Council are being sent out this morning to all members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes. Voting will not be conducted according to the preferential system, as was previously announced. Juniors will vote for seven men out of a list of 17, and Sophomores for three from a group of 12. The membership of the council will be rounded out to its full number of 15 with the appointment of three additional members from the Junior class and two from the Class of 1930 at the first meeting...
This scholarship is given annually to a student of "high character and ability, who shall have demonstrated his qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities" of the University. This scholarship, one of the most noteworthy awards of the University, was founded in 1923 by friends and classmates of R.P. Parker '22, of Salem, who was killed in an airplane accident near Paris the year year before his graduation...
Since the Student Advisory Committee was reorganized two years ago personal visits have been made to every Freshman soon after the beginning of the college year by Junior and Sophomore advisors. These visits with the subsequent reports written by the advisers on the men they have seen constituted the most important part of the advisory work. According to T. H. Eliot '28, chairman of this year's Committee, these visits have not proved entirely satisfactory and it is probable that they will be abandoned next year. In their place the work of the advisers in holding office hours during...
...features, St., Stephen's, an Episcopal college for men, became yesterday a part of Columbia University. St. Stephen's College has not only been one of the first to introduce the English in tutorial system in America, but it has realized the tenets of progressive educationalists by allowing its students complete intellectual freedom. Only men of exceptional ability are admitted, and those who do not prove qualified are dropped at the end of the second year. For most of the Juniors and Seniors there are no classes, but individual work with tutors. For all, there is a liberal administration readily...