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Just what the reason is for this large amount of failure, or for the action of the authorities, is unknown. Many of the midshipmen claim that it is because of the unusually severe examinations. This is denied by the instructors, who state that they were of the customary standard. The real trouble is probably traceable to the fact that the court of inquiry which investigated the scholastic methods of the academy last year recommended abolishment of the "dope" system, as it was called, and an order forbidding the use of any kind of special help followed. This help...
...especially important that Harvard should be the first North American university to enter the new field. For, though it may seem peculiar, Harvard is practically unknown in South America, outside of the highest educational circles. As a rule, people of high standing in general public affairs either do not know of the University's existence, or else have vague ideas concerning it. To them, education in the United States connotes Columbia, Yale, and Pennsylvania; for in past years the lecturers which these universities have sent to South America--at very indefinite intervals, to be sure--have given the well-informed...
...Comparative Zoology. He will be gone about three months, and will make a thorough study of the avian-fauna of the island. Many of the birds to be collected there for the University are found in no other part of the world, and several available species are almost unknown to science...
Such is the established policy of weekly journals. Slam the undergraduate and especially slam the professor. Woeful indeed is such ignorance. Yet those editors of this periodical who have taken History 1 in the University should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college...
...soon as we assume, however, that we are to be drawn into war against our own will, as soon as we urge the need of preparedness against a specific or unknown potential enemy, we have fallen into the European habit of thought. If we are right in that Europe has been right, Germany has been right. Indeed, there is not a European country that has not had a better reason for preparedness than the United States. If we are to profit by the fate of certain unprepared countries," however, we can do it only by imitating France and Germany...