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Then there is another type of criticism to which the Transcript article is no answer at all. There are always a few exceptional individuals who do not fit into the system. From the point of view of the college office Emerson was a member of the vast mediocrity. He graduated below the middle of his class. He knew what he wanted, so he ignored requirements which conflicted with his interests. Then there is Heywood Broun who left Harvard because he was unable to get what he wanted here. Was this another case where free development was unduly hampered by college...
...unrest and may result in changes in educational methods which we will later regret. By all means give the gifted and serious students the freedom to develop their individually and mental powers. By all means, too, reserve it for the gifted and serious. --The Quadwrangler in the Boston Transcript...
...article from the Transcript, quoted elsewhere in these columns, gives a fair presentation of the conservative point of view on educational problems which are being so much discussed at present throughout the press. There are many pleas for modifications of American systems of education to which this article is an adequate answer. No demand for greater freedom for individual thinking is worth a moment's consideration, if it ignores the necessary part a sound knowledge of facts must play in sound thinking. "No man's thinking is better than his information...
...always wanted to get an exact transcript of the parting words of a head coach to his men or his subsequent speech between the halves. I do know one but it was delivered to the squad of a comparatively small college. Just before the North Carolina eleven took the gridiron against Harvard their coach said to his players, "I want you boys to remember that every man on the Harvard team is a Republican...
...following review of the Senior Album, issued today, was written for the Crimson by David T. W. McCord '21. Mr. McCord, who was Ivy Orator for his class and was president of the Lampoon, is now connected with the Alumni Bulletin and the Transcript...