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Gardner prepared for College at St. Mark's School. He has played for two years on the University tennis team, and a year ago last fall he won the intercollegiate tournament at Philadelphia...
...program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. March, "Lorraine," Ganne 2. Overture, "Oberon," Weber 3. Selection, "Traviata," Verdi 4. Waltz, "Les Patineurs," Waldteufel 5. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 6. Hymn to Saint Cecil, Gounod 7. Serenade, "Sous le Balcon," Lacome 8. Spanish Dances, Moszkowski 9. Two Movements from the Suite, "Peer Gynt," Grieg 10. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 11. Selection, "Wizard of the Nile," Herbert 12. March, "Black Bess," Strube
What I have in mind may be pointed out by a reference to the courses in the philosophy department, because I know its details best. But I have convinced myself that the principle is the same in the other departments. The table of results contains sixty-two courses; they represent all the courses which any Senior counted among his three most favored or his three most regretted courses. They are ordered according to an arbitrary percentage of calculation which is supposed to bring out the degree of preference. It may be noted from the start that more than three fourths...
...Does it mean that the quality of the courses is different? Not at all. The one course is taken by about twenty men who are of course all seriously interested in ethics and like it very much, while the other course is taken by more than two hundred with no specialistic interests...
...Illustrated asking the teachers "to do their best" made a deep impression on me. I asked myself: What can I do to live up to the demand of the Senior who wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care...