Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a fame, what a fame, what an aim...
Realizing the present difficulty of men who are trying for scholarship aid, who are forced to "plan their work with the sole aim of obtaining the highest marks possible," the President feels that this method of awarding scholarships would "tend to diminish greatly the emphasis placed on grades obtained in courses. In this same direction the Report reveals that it might be a wise step forward to abolish the rank list itself for the upper classes. Modification such as this would of course be more in line with the shift of emphasis away from course grades and towards the development...
...this connection the President feels that the final solution must not in any way interfere "with the aim of having the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the most distinguished body of creative scholars which it is possible to obtain. Excellent tutoring, like excellent lecturing, should be given great weight in considering a young man for promotion, but by itself it should not be sufficient to insure a permanent career at Harvard." There must be no separation of "our faculty into those who teach and those who carry on creative work. Our strength in the past has lain in the fact...
Harvard's Aim--To Advance and Perpetuate Learning...
President Conant opens his report by repeating the text of his speech last Thursday night, that Harvard's aim is "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity." But his assumption that "we can all agree that these admirable words still describe our aims" is an entirely gratuitous one. These may be the aims of Harvard University, but they are not the aims of Harvard College. Men shape institutions in their own image and it is clear that Mr. Conant envisions the Harvard of the future as a paradise for those rare creative scholars of whom...