Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bridging of the chasm between secondary school and college is a riddle that has perplexed the educational engineers of America. In conventions, in college conferences, in most of the magazines of the popular intellectualism, the question has been put again and again. The mass of data is huge and mounting, but the man who can make a great highway, smooth-paved and uninterrupted, of what is now two roads connected by a bridge of San Luis, Rey, has not yet appeared...
...chasm is not, as has often been asserted, a purely curricular one. There is a close similarity between the elementary courses taken by freshmen and the mechanically preparatory system of the secondary school. This similarity, as President Lowell has said, is forced upon the college by inadequate grooming. If French 2 must come to Sever it is because "senior French" was not far behind or, in another sense, because it was too far behind...
...specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...
...roared. "I can't? If you are sitting on this imitationleather lounge one reading period, plus a Christmas vacation spent with textbooks, from today, I shall walk up to you with a message from my tutor. No one can say that, because others have failed, I cannot bridge the Chasm that separates us from our loved ones...
...confine himself to a discussion of the decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...