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...high for a College which has a selective process of admission and we should constantly strive to see to it that all the assistance legitimately desirable is given to the willing but less gifted student and that our curriculum and general plan of education are such as to interest, broaden, and develop the non-scholarly type of youth...
...experiment was an attempt to broaden the market for HOLC bonds, now being issued at the rate of $200,000,000 per month in exchange for defaulted mortgages. Ultimately HOLC will also need at least $300,000,000 in cash. After a big HOLC issue (for cash) flopped last summer, the bankers were summoned, and a great selling drive started to convince small investors that the bonds were, if not as good as gold, at least as good as the Treasury's paper dollar...
There can be no doubt that the educational ideals of President Conant and former President Lowell are diametrically opposed. Dr. Lowell sought, by means of the House Plan and the Tutorial System, to broaden the knowledge and experience of those who were to be the leaders of society; President Conant, on the other hand, seems to believe that only those who are allowed to broaden their own interests with a free rein will or should become the leaders of society. The distinction lies not in the method, but in the principle...
Realizing the imminent necessity of facing this change, the Yale school has attempted to broaden the classical curriculum to include practical study of social changes in relation to the law. Instead of being confined to case precedents, the new study will attempt to find the causes and effects of the case, the actual circumstances from which the legal problem arose. Dean Clark has expressed the hope that the new plan will not merely be useful as vocational training. "The dream is that this will result in real gain in scientific knowledge and in methods of control of our intricate social...
...group, and by petition; and elected by the House. It is recommended that, in order to secure the men best fitted for various tasks, the committees should make a practice of appointing a number of their members. House Committees if they are active and show initiative can and should broaden and improve the organization of their activities especially as regards athletics and the choice of suitable speakers. To be sensitive to the desires of such large House groups and to overcome the inertia that necessarily exists in such groups is a field on which the House Committees as yet have...