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...Yale's solution puts emphasis too much on wholesale distribution of information: followed to its logical conclusion, such a system of lectures would supplant the old system which, with all its faults, has that very desirable personal element, student contact with the faculty. This would be a loss. The real trouble with the faculty advisor system is that the advisors are so over-worked that they have but little time to inform themselves or their advisees concerning courses or fields of concentration. With some ten or fifteen men in line to be advised the man "in the presence" does...
...memorial to the graduates and undergraduates dead in the war. Apparently the committee can't make up its mind, or doesn't deem it judicious, to do so until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest buildings ever raised by the hand of man. Possibly, however, undergraduate esthetic feeling toward it has been softened since the compulsory...
...rating scale is not intended to supplant the regular system of credits leading to degrees, but to supplement it. The adoption of the scale, say the authorities of the School, is an acknowledgment of the fact that when they have the record of a man's grades in his courses, they do not know all they should in order to recommend him for a job. Such recommendations will be made henceforward on the basis of the rating scale as well as of the man's grades in classroom work...
...vogue today, that deals with drab, everyday life in a colorless wag, will not last long as a classic, according to Joseph C. Lincoln, noted American novelist, In a recent interview for the Crimson. These novels form but one more example of the attempt of the Realists to supplant the Romanticists in the field of literature, Mr. Lincoln said...
...because I always try to keep an open mind and to stand with hands open and receptive to the gifts of the future; and I welcome the new verse because it offers a new form to help us to a broader and freer expression. This new verse will never supplant the old forms, however, for those old forms contain many musical and rhetorical possibilities necessary for the expression of the deeper melodies of the spirit. But I have a grievance against nine-tenths of the new verse. To my mind this nine-tenths is not poetry but merely an oddity...