Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational development already conceived, and in some cases practiced by the faculty and student body of Harvard! Indeed even the most casual reading of this article forces comparison with the Report of the Student Council's Committee on Education. For in many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence while yet admitting the existence of progressive and often anti-cultural tendencies on the part of the university world to include itself within the larger world of modern civilization...
...this age of mechanical method and mass manner can call himself a true student, does he remain uncongenial to philosophy. For philosophy, to mention the obvious, is the circle of which all the sciences and history and literature and the segments. It is man's attempt to see the whole in a manner abstracted from the prejudices of flesh and the trivialities of custom. And thus, when properly revealed to the young mind, philosophy presents itself as a ground storehouse into which he can place and adjust those more specialized kinds of knowledge which his university experience gives...
...would not force philosophy upon uncongenial minds. It could not. What the committee does suggest is that underclassmen gain some appreciation of the land they are entering before they study the brass on its gates. These freshmen have by their coming to Harvard implied that they are willing to attempt some philosophical appreciation of their world and of their place in their world. So the philosophy course, given in the manner suggested by the committee, a course in which some few great attempts at meta-physical and ethical understanding are interestingly delineated, would not in any sense be a superficial...
...amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university the traditional human warmth of the small college...
Many who have read the extracts from the report of the Student Council Committee of Education, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, have considered Section III, concerning Subdivision into Colleges, an undergraduate attempt to rival Plato. Remembering that the "house divided" is supposed to fall, they see in this project of the Committee an excellent means of destroying Harvard. Yet upon further consideration, one can more clearly understand just what the plan implies and why it is both necessary and practical...