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...adopting a policy under which those men would be selected for promotion who are good tutors and lectures as well as good scholars. Men of this type are rare. On the other hand, I should like to see Harvard adopt a policy under which teaching ability became the main criterion of promotion in all cases. Is it not possible to differentiate between these members of the Faculty whose main job is research and those whose main job is lecturing and tutoring? Could not promotion in the first group be made to depend on productivity as a scholar...
...short of a reasonable degree of justice is bound to lose much of its meaning. This has been the case with Phi Beta Kappa elections. The award of Phi Beta Kappa keys based wholly or mainly on course grades has rightly, been criticized, for course grades are a superficial criterion of intellectual capacity. It is recognized that general examinations and honors theses are far more adequate tests of intelligent scholarship than course examinations and that the degree magna cum laude is the best official guarantee of a man's scholastic achievement. The Phi Beta Kappa Society has admitted this principle...
...much more accurate idea of a candidate's real ability than is possible with the Old Plan. What a student does in school should certainly have mere weight than it does in determining whether or not he is fitted for college. His ability to pass not examinations, chief criterion of the Old Plan, in not enough. The New Plan examinations by their very nature are more comprehensive than those of the Old Plan; accordingly they constitute a much better test of the ability of the candidate...
Professor Eliot, who has in recent years lived in London as a British citizen, where he is editor of "The Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...
...could be more futile than class discussions at their worst. The average section meeting, too often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text...