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...last summer inaugurated a series of summer courses on international problems for college students travelling abroad, has announced its intention of offering similar courses during the coming summer. The summer lectures are given at Geneva under the auspices of the International Universities Federation with the direction of Professor Alfred Zimmern. Edwin F. Gay Hon '18, Professor of Economic History in the University, whose picture is printed below, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Geneva School...
...what will become of the amateur critic and his criticism when he learns that the criterion of his artistic judgment has been attacked upon very sound grounds? Professor Alfred E. Zimmern the noted English educator, condemns Harkness for its "imitativeness of Europe" and grows eloquent over the Bush Terminal Building because it represents "a real piece of the American mind." The word "piece" is important, since it leaves one to believe there are other pieces...
Alfred E. Zimmern, potent Welsh educator and economist, recently at Cornell, wrote an article for the New York Evening Post. His main criticisms of American colleges, as compared with English, are summarized above...
With the American student Professor Zimmern is delighted. The college boy is O. K., but the college has not yet learned how to play ball with him. And if the college does not soon learn, it will continue to be " for the student a finishing school, for the administration a business establishment, for the ordinary teacher a routine, for the investigator a means for supporting his researches, and for American life, as a whole, in relation to the real forces of the age, a tranquil and almost stagnant backwater...
This evening at 6.30 o'clock the University Menorah Society will hold its winter dinner in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall. Members of the society, invited guests from the Monorah societies in nearby colleges, and various members of the University Faculty will be present. Professor A. E. Zimmern and Professor H. M. Kallen '06 will speak...