Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much as a word to some of his professors. Such cases are often cited as examples of the traditional. Harvard in-difference and are received with horror by those unfamiliar with conditions in a modern university. It is a misconception to take such statements as indicative of an impassible breach between the students and the Faculty, for the only courses in which a man may fall to come into contact with a professor are those large elementary lecture courses which every one must take to build a foundation for the special work of his college career. When...
...appear to be in a position to apply the unwritten standards of the English universities, which consider faulty expression a breach of decency. We must, therefore, find some mechanical means for checking the continued use of incorrect English. The system, in vogue in some other colleges, whereby a man who consistently uses poor English in his reports and theses is remanded to an elementary course in composition which does not count for a degree, offers a practicable and, on the whole, an effective solution...