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...Royce, the first speaker, made the subject of his remarks certain problems that confront those who are actively engaged in the advancement of special research and graduate work in America. An English observer feared that we pay too little attention to developing the undergraduate in our endeavor to secure success in special research. These ideas in regard to graduate work suggest to us in America a warning. We must be careful not to lose sight of our ideals, nor of our general culture in the all-absorbing work of our special research. And yet there is no reason...
Another scheme is to have the institution run like a large city hospital, each man paying as much as he can afford. The objection in this case is, however, that there is lacking an endowment fund, which is much needed for the success of this plan. At present the infirmary is being run at the expense of the College...
...graduates has so rapidly increased that the time has come to take a new step in the organization of American rowing. The increased interest in rowing is shown by the enthusiastic support given by undergraduates to newly formed rowing clubs in many of the universities and by the success in many places of interscholastic rowing associations. From these sources have sprung a body of men whose interest has been aroused and whose attitude toward rowing is very different from that of the average university oar of the past. More intelligent methods of training and a dawning idea that rowing...
After all that has been said upon this subject, no one, I feel certain, will believe that the objections to this plan have been based on "sentimental" grounds, that the success of the Society up to the present time has been "in spite of its present organization" as has been asserted, or that the proposed plan is the best now practically available. If I were asked to state briefly my main ground of dissent I should say that I feel the need of a check on the powers of the stockholders which will at the same time be a means...
...Society as a tenant was the only reason advanced to show that "the disadvantages of the present system are not merely matters of theory," we must ask for other reasons before we throw over an organization which is a desirable tenant and which has proved a marked success. C. H. AYRES...