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...must the Artists and Scientists of our faculty admit themselves incompetent to produce any but a course wherein the gentleman after culture must be plunged to suffocation depth "under the surface" of one special, specialized branch of science, there to wallow for a year and to drag down by his incompetence--for who is not incompetent when set to that most hopeless of all tasks, working at something which for him is utterly futile?--to drag down by his incompetence, I say, the few precious students who would else do well because that subject is their special interest and acknowledged...
...such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin my eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have...
...much detached from the ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning world outside...
...same hour Dr. Calkina's class on mission study will meet in the Library. Educational missionary work in Africa will be the subject for discussion. P. G. Wallow '17 will speak on missions in West Africa, especially in Liberia, and J. C. Bosman '15 will tell about the work in South Africa, especially in Natal...
...with a defence of Socialism, scarcely less fervid. "That Socialism," says Mr. Sheahan, "should gain enthusiastic recruits from the field of literature and from the colleges is disgraceful." "Until we drop the scholastic method in politics," says Mr. Lippmann, "and substitute the method of induction, we shall continue to wallow in misunderstanding and futility." Both papers are of interest...