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...course presume to dictate a formal set of criterion by which education must be judged, but surely the concept of a community of scholars, each pursuing his own interests, is completely misleading from the standpoint of undergraduate instruction. As a goal to be pursued in the research faculty and in the graduate schools it may be valuable, but as regards the teaching of college students it is completely worthless...
Thus the Administration should not take its victory on Tuesday as a criterion for its future policy. It must not play the part of a generous uncle who gives his nephew a toy every time he asks for one. There must be method in his policies which will offer industry and agriculture constructive aid. In short, confidence must be restored by making sure that the government's credit will be used only where it assists, not hinders...
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...