Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...newcomer, who with other outsiders has shared some of the current misapprehensions of the spirit of this university, it is especially gratifying to find here a general attitude of tolerance and fair play both inside the classroom and outside. To be more explicit, liberalism, as a philosophy, appears to he thriving here; and, more important even than that, there is evidently a genuine and very healthy interest in the social and political problems of the day. The visit of Mr. Plumb, for instance, and especially the enthusiasm with which his audience stayed on to question him, are encouraging symptoms...
...ways to satisfactorily meet this situation: the faculty must either give up the idea entirely and return to the high school theory of nothing but assigned lessons, or it must put the tutorial system on a sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible...
...have the privileges of the doctor, the lawyer, and the rest of the professions. If the universities are to draw the best men into their teaching staffs, they cannot limit the right of every man to investigate and teach in his own field, or to give expression outside the classroom to his views, on whatever subject he chooses...
...should be pointed out that in discussing these matters outside his classroom and in expressing whatever views he may hold on this or any other subject of current public policy, Mr. Laski is utilizing a privilege which Harvard has steadfastly accorded to all her teachers. As President Lowell declared some years ago, a university cannot exercise a censorship over the utterances of its teachers without accepting responsibility for everything they do or say. It might not be amiss to suggest to Mr. Laski, however, that, as he is not a citizen of the United States, the amenities of the situation...
...gatherings of Princeton graduates ever held. Arrangements have been made to bring together graduates from all classes and from all territorial sections. Members of classes that graduated back in the early seventies will meet with Princeton men of the later-day classes, including many who had to relinquish their classroom work in 1917 to enter the nation's service...