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...under such circumstances that men are called upon to keep on the job and complete their year with an honest effort. It will be difficult, but it is a duty which no one can neglect. Burn the midnight oil and fulfill all academic obligations should be the watchword of the coming two weeks...
Auguste Rodin's beautiful maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university...
...High Command of Harvard has started its fall drive. The marks of the hour examinations in the military art are little by little becoming known and the grade of "deficient" is now the watchword in the basement of University...
...Professor Josiah Royce; and "University Ideals in England, Germany, and the United States," by Professor Francis G. Peabody. George W. Nasmyth, of the Harvard International Polity Club, in his talk "Above all Humanity are the Nations," reverses the ideal of the Club, and then pleads that the Cosmopolitan watchword is the expression of the fundamental social truth, "Above all Nations is Humanity." Louis P. Lochner describes a "Week-End Excursion to Paris;" and the customary editorial and news notes complete the number. There are several excellent illustrations, including President Eliot's picture, the John Harvard Statue, the College Yard (looking...
...conflicts for individual members. It now remains for the clubs to act. A little trouble on their part, a little co-operation, will not only increase the effectiveness of lectures and musicals, but, once inaugurated, will accommodate their own members. For, with due apology, to that long-suckled watchword of Harvard indifference, there are men and even club men who take an interest in the extra-curriculum opportunities -- intellectual, and artistic--held out to them here...