Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...borne in mind that the negative is not called upon to defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...shows that free choice is supremely efficient in promoting a vital scholarship. If this is so, is it of any consequence that students are drifting away from the so called disciplinary studies? It is not of far more consequence that they are drifting towards disciplinary effort? It is far better that a man should take studies which really to train him than studies which are supposed to train him. The value of a study to any man can be measured only by its effects upon the man in question...
Fosdick of Princeton was the last speaker in the debate. He pointed out that the negative had not shown that there was anything better than the free elective system, and that what the negative had said did not reflect upon the principle of free election, but merely upon the way the system is conducted at Harvard...
...guided by authority, the authorities must agree. An examination of the catalogues of the leading colleges in the country shows the widest diversity of opinion on this point. Where there is such diversity it is more rational to let the student choose for himself. Perhaps we can do nothing better than to see once more what sort of system we have been advocating. It is a system demanded by the logic of circumstances; it is a rational system, one which contains room at all times for prescription of a definite quantity and quality of work, and at the right time...
...income from athletics is insufficient to meet necessary expenses of all our teams, it would be better to raise slightly the price of the H. A. A. ticket and so distribute the expense over all the classes as well as the various departments of the University...