Word: crediteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been a lot of comment about Widener Library this fall, some of it accurate and well-founded, some ill-advised. That there were some improvements which could be made, and that some improvements have been made, few will deny. For this progress, credit is due to Widener's receptive administration, which has done its best to meet reasonable demands. To the undergraduate, however, still remains the Library's greatest barrier--the lack of permission to use the stacks. To advocate that this permission be granted is not the purpose of this editorial; there are sound arguments against flooding...
...Passed a bill containing five minor amendments to the Federal Credit Union Act, passed in 1934, under which credit unions may be organized and operated under Federal charters issued by the Farm Credit Administration...
...head, sharp-faced Dr. Thomas Alexander, went a step farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically and socially. Credit will be given for work in organizing unions, soapbox speaking, electioneering for any political party-left. centre or right. If colleges can subsidize athletes, said he, they can "encourage the socially conscious student...
Pointing out that "you can't measure education by hours," he advocated a plan of general examinations which students would take "when they thought they were ready for them." No time limit should be put on the "incarceration" in school. The credit system, whereby graduation depends on the number of courses passed, is the "curse of education...
Speaking as a "battle-scarred veteran" and out of a vast abyss of experience," Hutchins concluded that "it's bad enough to be an educator anyway. We can't tell whether our students succeed because of us or in spite of us." If they are successful "we take the credit and if they fall--they shouldn't have been admitted in the first place...