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Scholarship protested; it called football brutal, demanding its abolishment, introduced co-education, thinking, perhaps, that potting parties would supplant athletics...
...publisher is not alarming. The colleges will always retain their function of supplying the mental stimulus for true education; and unless there is this stimulus, any number of bales of printed lectures is so much paper and little else. If the time has come when the printed lecture can supplant the spoken lecture, can arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor in inspiring serious intellectual activity--and while personality can never be suppressed even...
...keep alumni in touch with events at the University and more particularly in giving to schoolboys an acquaintance with colleges in general and Harvard in particular, the CRIMSON feels that it will be performing a new and valuable function. With graduates and clubs it does not wish to supplant but merely to supplement the Bulletin. With schools it does not wish to proselyte but merely to give the schoolboy, accustomed to the lurid and often unintelligent reports in the metropolitan press of the country, a truer picture of the facts and events at a great university, which happens...
With two insurgents on the Committee, the regular Republicans faced a tie vote if the troublesome two voted with the Democrats. But the insurgents clamored that Representative Nelson, their leader, should supplant one of the regulars proposed. The Democrats also would have liked another place on the Committee, changing the proportion from...
...present. This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite are shocked to contemplate the masses absorbing history or what not without effort or reference to authentic written texts. It is sometimes even argued that such substitutes for real education will eventually supplant the orthodox methods, and that everything will be simplified, condensed and given out in the popular "tabloid" form...