Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost invariably the case that when two large institutions exist in close proximity rivalry manifests itself. This condition is amply exemplified by the present attitude of Technology toward Harvard. A healthy spirit of rivalry, especially of the type which accompanies athletic contests, is to be desired, but prejudice based upon misunderstanding is unnecessary and may prove detrimental...
...building itself is attractive, and is one of the most interesting, architecturally, at the University. It is a late Renaissance type, designed by Professor Bestelmeyer, a leading German architect. Inside--but a personal inspection will tell more than any written account, and will open to lovers of art a profitable field...
...campaign launched today in London is the result of the exposure of what is fast becoming a widespread abuse in England,--the selling of American college degrees. Advertisements, carefully worded, have been appearing in London papers of the best type; and agents of so-called American universities,--the most notorious centering about Washington and Chicago,--have been hawking degrees under various ingenious pretenses...
...country have professional courses for undergraduates. This does not include state colleges. Among the latter, state appropriations of $40,000,000 in 1918 included only half a million to cultural colleges, so-called, and a federal appropriation the same year for "higher education" went entirely to the professional school type of college...
What is the future of the strictly cultural college. That there is room for more than one type is evident, when state universities like California register an enrollment of 43,000 students, almost as many as the entire body of living Harvard alumni. We have reached a condition where our colleges are literally being drowned. Figures point to the overwhelming trend of the present in favor of the "practical, professional" type of college; but the arguments in favor of a general cultural course are by no means to be ignored. "Culture" does not mean blind, narrow-minded reading...