Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tendency of development in academic circles today is to bring colleges and professional schools into closer touch with the community. Hitherto, educational institutions have been judged more by the quality of their instruction and the character of their students than they have by any standard of direct service to the community. Now, however, it has come about that the community is expecting something more than merely training for a selected group and is looking to the scholar for the solution of all sorts of problems. Consequently, in order to be a national institution bound by close ties to the whole...
...admission to Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School put a premium on special training and cramming, a joint committee of the two undergraduate faculties has recommended drastic modification of the present system. This is another phase of that movement that began here at Harvard to bring the college into closer relations with preparatory and public schools throughout the country and to set the entrance examinations so that a general knowledge of certain broad fields of study would suffice to pass them. The successful working of the new plan at Harvard was shown the other day when President Lowell's report...
...applied scholarship, too, President Lowell dwells on the important contributions made by Harvard to the community in the past year. The closer relation between the Medical School and hospitals, and the wonderful discoveries made at the Medical School are subjects worthy of reiteration...
This report summarizes admirably the steps forward Harvard is taking to make education a broader and more vital force for those who are so privileged as to enjoy it and the efforts this University is making to come into closer touch with the whole people. It represents what Harvard is doing to make learning more vital as an intangible force and more beneficial in its practical application...
...navy we have explained and emphasized before. But the most important feature of the proposed reserve is the opportunity which it offers to college men for naval and military training and experience. The association of college men with regulars in the service is designed to bring about a closer understanding between men differing widely in training and circumstances. We are proud of what Harvard men have done to bring about international peace, and believe that they will continue to be prominent in the work. But in no sense in the present movement to establish a military and naval reserve reactionary...