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Since the advent of President Angell, Yale has been engaged in a self-transformation analagous to that at Harvard under the Lowell, Conant regime. From one viewpoint, the changes at New Haven have been more radical, for Yale has been bogged down in the past by a more powerful pedagogical...
By and large, however, the new Yale plan rings true. The sum of human knowledge represents too large a sea upon which to set the unwary undergraduate adrift. Much criticism, often from. Yale undergraduates themselves, has been heard concerning a student's undirected, purposeless effort. Some integration, some degree of...
Yale's recent action was hailed the university's "most important educational change in many years." President Angell remarked that the new system "is designed to encourage a genuine mastery of some one field of work, to stimulate a systematic thinking, and to challenge intellectual independence -- the student must under...
After lunch in Memorial Church with the members of his staff, President Roosevelt was whisked off by car to snug old Sanders Theatre for a final alumni gathering. There he was greeted by Harvard's President-of-the-Day. Abbott Lawrence Lowell who once lectured him in Government 1...
Snapped spry and equally quick-witted President Angell: "I was told when leaving the deluge this morning that this was President Conant's method of soaking the rich. So long as they are Harvard's rich, I don't care. But the endowed institutions of the U...