Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alston Chase discusses with force and courage creative scholarship as a criterion for the selection of professors and tutors in the current issue of the Critic. Considered as whole, the article is important in that it takes up many problems whose solutions should be forged on the anvil of debate. The question of a tutor's qualifications, however, is one which deserves particular consideration...
...character which will permit him to pass on something more than facts. He must know that life exists outside of Cambridge if he is to give a man an education which will be of use to him. In short, a thesis or research work cannot serve as the sole criterion for his position. True, he must possess a basis of knowledge but more important than this is his ability to present that knowledge! Certainly in order to achieve this purpose, more thought must be given to a candidate's qualifications along this latter line...
There are two reasons for this. First of all, differences in preparation have made a set of requirements about the only workable standard to use as a criterion. Secondly, distribution requirements necessitate a large amount of survey work which a man may have already experienced at school. When he has sheared this red tape and finished the introductory work to his field, his selection of electives must be made from a small number of courses. As a result, the man develops a general knowledge of many things but fails to get an adequate and comprehensive knowledge of either his field...
...been lessened by the House Masters, who have frankly, and, in a sense, naturally, sought to obtain men whom they have known and liked, regardless of intellectual considerations. It is apparent that if the House Plan is to be a success, the Houses must be judged by some criterion other than social. For instance, Lowell has developed intellectual prominence, without a brilliant tutoring staff. Adams' strength lies in the fields of history and government, Winthrop's in the bio-chemical sciences Dunster's and Leverett's in economies, Eliot's in history and literature, If each House is permitted...
...change will not only mean a considerable saving of money, but it will also remove the criticism that the publication and distribution of a Rank List for upperclassmen based merely on standing in courses overemphasizes course grades as a criterion for judging achievement and gives no weight to tutorial work. In the case of the first-year men, a printed Rank List seems necessary because of the fact that the schools desire information regarding the showing of their men. Such a publication is also helpful to departments of the University. There is no objection to a Rank List for Freshmen...