Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing the publication of the text of President Lowell's 1926-27 Report to the Board of Overseers, the Crimson prints today the section dealing with the age at which students-should enter college...
American secondary schools do not complete the secondary teaching that ought to be done at the age our young men come to college. The result is that with the preparation now required for professional and business life--much longer than it was formerly--the young man does not begin his active career until a later age than is wise. An artisan at the age of 20 may be earning as large an income, and be as well able to support a family, as he ever will be; but his contemporary who is looking forward to the bar or to medicine...
...reason that young men come to the age of eighteen with minds less trained than their contemporaries in Europe is to be found chiefly in the fact that they begin their schooling later, and in the early years proceed less rapidly. Masters of secondary schools have often asserted that they could prepare boys for college earlier if sent to them younger, and there can be no doubt that boys would be prepared earlier if there were a demand for it. But although a feeling appears to be gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced an age...
...Freshman Halls, we are paying far more personal attention to the Freshmen than ever before, and are constantly doing so to a larger extent, with the result that parents need not worry about sending their sons at 17. For the boys of normal maturity to come at that age and graduate at 21 would be better for the whole body of students
...continually thinking and discussing the social and political welfare and future developments of their country. The students do, of course, have their sports, such as football, but underneath all runs a serious attitude, and this attitude is in part enhanced by each student's undivided work, for after the age of 17. every boy has chosen his profession, and all his studies are viewed from the angle of his future profession or the ultimate welfare of India. Medicine, law, engineering, and business are the chief occupations of the college graduates...