Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty ruling, in effect, sets up an elastic barrier between Pass and Honor students which adapts itself to the basic structure of the lecture system. For the necessary restrictions which hedge about the privilege make the transition back to course requirements easy for the student who does not profit by extended tutorial work. On complaint of his tutor, a delinquent candidate may have to resume the full schedule of four courses at either mid-year or final examination periods...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...
...Russia is today the most scientific country in the world and the educational system there is fundamentally different from that of any other nation. The basic change which the Soviet government has effected is the proletarianizing of education'. In Russia, children of the well to do bourgeoise and aristocrats are no longer given a better opportunity of acquiring an education as is still the case in Harvard, Columbia and the other old and established universities of this country. In fact whenever it is necessary to make a choice in admission to a higher educational institution, students of the bourgeoise...
...second course considers the New Education in its various aspects, its claim to novelty, and its basic principle. Recent developments in psychology will also be reviewed. Modern experiments in individual instruction such as the Dalton plan, administrative schemes such as the Gary plan, the use of tests and scales, and new modes of discipline are considered in the light of the principles developed in the course...
...when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, stated it as his belief that the erndition which is generally admitted to the more common in the graduates of English colleges than in those from American institutions is traceable rather to different environment and different habits of thought than to any basic faulty in the American system of education...