Word: various
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Addresses on the various professions open to a man graduating from college are to be given by different men on Tuesday evenings in the Living Room of the Union on the following dates. On April 11, Mr. J. G. Milburn of New York, recently a member of the law firm of Rogers, Locke & Milburn, in 1901 president of the Pan-American Exposition, and well known as an able lawyer, will speak on "Law"; on April 25, Dr. J. C. Warren '63 of Boston, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, Professor of Surgery in the University from...
Other systems of college education may strive in various ways to accomplish these ends and may be partly successful, but in the free elective system alone do we find in all its purity, and at its very best, the atmosphere of responsible freedom which I have tried to prove to you supremely essential to the growth of aggressive scholarship, broad views and vigorous manhood...
...free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study...
Subscriptions should be entirely dispensed with. They are neither fair to the various teams nor to members of the University. It is the experience of all managers that Freshmen contribute the most to all sports, besides supporting their class teams and crew. The amount decreases with each class, Seniors contributing comparatively little...
...income from athletics is insufficient to meet necessary expenses of all our teams, it would be better to raise slightly the price of the H. A. A. ticket and so distribute the expense over all the classes as well as the various departments of the University...