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...reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal was not being subserved under present conditions, when in many cases lectures are merely concentrated doses of factual information, and that in consequence a remedy should be worked out along the lines of Professor Vaughan's innovation...
...observed this year first editions of Dryden's plays are now on display in the Treasure Room of the College Library. The Dryden collection in considered one of the best in the Library, including first editions of practically all his plays as well as his autograph in the Greek text-book he used at school. Records of his many controversies with other writers form an interesting part of the collection. The exhibition will continue in the Treasure Room for several weeks...
...Chemistry A or B; Physics C or D; and Math A. It is necessary for concentration in the field of Chemistry, and for most further work in Chemistry, including medical studies. The lectures cannot be said to be particularly illuminating, perhaps because they merely cover the substance of the text-book...
...brought Osler to help found Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1889, on Osler's "two greatest contributions to medicine, the most important being the first medical clinic [Johns Hopkins'] worthy of the name in any English- speaking country, and the other the publication in 1892 of his text-book [Practice of Medicine] presenting with rare literary skill and unexampled success the principles and practice of medicine adequately and completely for the first time in English after the great revolutionary changes brought about by modern bacteriology...
...soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their ears when Teacher Scopes declared he was still using a biology text-book which explained the theory of evolution and which the State had not recalled. Chemist Rappelyea was sure the law, if taken to court, could be reduced to an absurdity, pitched into oblivion. Teacher Scopes guessed it could, too. A bargain was struck: Chemist Rappelyea would swear out a warrant...