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...results of this movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing...
...allotment of space which needs correction. In other words, the mere fact that a subject is of especial intrinsic interest is not always enough to advertise it as much as a subject intrinsic interest is not always enough to advertise it as much as a subject infinitely more trivial, but one in which every undergraduate is primarily and directly interested. Lastly, if it is suggested that the CRIMSON editorials show little originality, that they are merely a barren condemnation of obvious defects; or an inspirited eulogy of patent perfections, why then I think all will agree that there is much...
...student in writing a thesis. He is far more apt to secure three or four books pertaining to his subject, and then by paraphrasing and judicious selection to turn out a more or less successful bit of hackwork. The benefit to be derived from such an operation is evidently trivial...
...necessary means for the training of the mind. There, above all, the American nature finds it interest and elevates itself. Students easily follow their courses, which generally are entirely within their intellectual reach. Some of them keep their examinations always in view, and have a tendency to consider trivial the studies which do not lead directly to them...
...that in awarding high rank or distinction, emphasis should be laid more largely than it is today on ability to deal with facts and principles, as compared with information acquired and memory." This is very welcome announcement, for the useless and irksome task of temporarily assimilating a quantity of trivial details in order to obtain a high mark, has proved a most effectual deterrent to students who otherwise would have aspired to honors. An A obtained by such work is considered of little value by the majority of students, for, as President Lowell has put it, "the object...