Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catalogue of any American college gives a fair idea of the final steps in the educational process as it is now applied. The student must first concentrate, or major, in one subject, and take several courses in that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...
...true scholars--those who have a passion to go exploring in the world of ideas, tracing down the lost, mislaid, and undiscovered facts pertaining to some particular subject...
Professor Taussig makes some very interesting observations in the current number of Foreign Affairs on the subject of increased tariff schedules. In the same magazine the Harvard economist is vigorously supported in his contention that the new high rates will react unfavorably to the United States. This support comes from the author of "America Comes of Age," the celebrated French economist, Andre Siegfried, who points out meaningly that Europe has become strong enough to retaliate against unduly high tariff measures. The analysis of Professor Taussig together with the intimations from France suggest that the present Congress has been busy sowing...
...editorial candidates have daily training in writing editorials on any interesting current topic, and of expressing their own ideas on the subject. This competition is open to Juniors only, and this is the final opportunity for Juniors to make the CRIMSON...
...manner of the profound scientist that he is. His lectures are models of clear cut precision which cannot help maintaining the interest of his audience from beginning to end. A thorough set of notes is virtually essential inasmuch as there is no up-to-date text book on the subject and the examinations are based entirely on the lectures...