Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many peas in an empty pod in this week's consideration of "Princeton On Roller Skates" The time-worn arguments that: "The faculties of colleges and universities are charged with developing boys into men. Men nowadays drive cars. Students should learn to handle cars. That is a vital part of the education of the modern man and woman," are used to little avail and nothing new or of interest is given. True, the editorial will appeal to the emotions of many people dissatisfied with the present situation at the universities and colleges where the use of student cars is prohibited...
...Junior College, An Indictment" is the title of Professor Palmer's article, which aims to show that the four year college course is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education and would be seriously interfered with by the Junior College...
...such a vital shake...
Professor Palmer bases his case upon the assumption that the four year college course which "aims at teaching nothing useful, and so by its presence in a society disposed to measure everything by material standards becomes a factor of extremest use" is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education. To him the growth of the Junior College will cause the college to drop its first two years, add two more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford...
...Harvard Fund supplies one of the vital needs of the University in providing funds not bound to a definite purpose. Furthermore, in spite of the general and deserved distrust of the Dear Old Rutgers complex, there is something essentially fine in the effort to bring every alumnus to a realization of his part in the destinies of Harvard...