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Show Then and Now. We never heard the word efficiency in those days, so far as I can remember, re-member, outside the physics laboratory. labora-tory. Would to heaven it had stayed there ! It must not be supposed, however, how-ever, that we did not work when we did work. As I look about me, I do not see many young men under our present efficient systems who seem to be working harder. Somehow we derived de-rived from the old men a thirst for knowledge, a restless curiosity, a joyous joy-ous knight-errantry in the quest for truth. Surely, that teaching which can induce students to pursue their researches voluntarily outside of the classroom is the best kind of teaching. I get the impression today that most of the Joy of college life is confined con-fined to the student body, and that that is often hectic. The faculties seem to me overworked, over-serious, lacking in what we call pedagogic faith faith that' the student may be trusted to get some good out of leisure. leis-ure. I suppose that we shall have to blame, as usual, the Zeitgeist. Crowded Crowd-ed curricula, multiform "student activities," ac-tivities," and all the full-steam and weighted throttles of modern efficiency effi-ciency are pushing out of college life Just the one element that should be , characteristic of It time ; time for rumination, ru-mination, day-dreaming, thought. Robert M. Gay, in the Atlantic. |