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...energy to their subject and the best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student. The result is that the instructor has become to the student more and more of a speaking text-book, rather than a human being whose friendship is to be cultivated...
...lecture hour. It is then that a large group of men, presumably interested in one subject, are brought together in a gathering which offers great intellectual possibilities. Under the lecture system which dominates American colleges, however, this hour usually resolves itself into a more or less dry text-book chapter. In many cases the lecturer merely enlarges upon the reading assigned; and in others the matter which he delivers could be incorporated into a text-book with a positive gain to clearness and cogency...
...desirability of instruction for Freshmen in methods of work has frequently been pointed out. Closely connected with this need is that of a more efficient system of assistants. In most undergraduate courses the professor's lectures are used as a supplementary text-book, while it is the assistant only who comes into immediate contact with the student. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the assistant be competent to teach, with enough time for effective teaching, and with genuine interest in the welfare of his students...
...most important works announced for publication during the fall include a new book by President Lowell called "The Governments of France, Italy and Germany," which is substantially a revision of the Presidents former work "The Governments and Parties of Continental Europe." The new volume is designed primarily as a text-book to make more available the substance of the original work, but it also provides in interesting form the most recent and authoritative survey of governmental machinery in the chief states of the Continent...
...present number of volumes now available on the shelves of the Text-Book Loan Library is 2274, a net increase of about 300 over last year. Of these, quite a large proportion are language books, especially in the French and German courses. The books of these courses and others where there is a variety of authors have been arranged in alphabetical order upon the shelves...