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Boston Herald, July 24: "The snap reaction to the report of the Harvard Committee . . . is that this completes a cycle. We had out long period of educational rigidity and standardized curricula. Then came the free elective system as perfected by President Eliot. And now we are back again to the ideal of uniformity, if not conformity. The emphasis is to be once more on what is common to all men rather than on what is individual to each...
...seem as if the Committee's proposals for prescribed curricula are antithical to freedom. But a sound democracy can be built only on an informal and intelligent electorate, and specialism does not dispose to political sophistication. A mathematician can be victimized by a Huey Long, whereas, as William James said, an educated person knows a good man when he sees...
...much "the record of education" that stinks, as charged, but the record of the general public's interest in education. . . . Most states need better financial support for schools, better qualified and better paid teachers, better schoolhouses, better compulsory-attendance laws and child-labor laws better enforced, and better curricula...
...various wartime problems now confronting the Law School, those which will draw Dean Landis' first attentions on his return include the treatment of returning veterans and the placing of them in their proper place in the program, the imminent consideration of revised and enlarged curricula for the already expanding enrollment at the Law School, and the rebuilding of the greatly depleted faculty of the School...
...polltakers asked a scientific sampling of citizens: "Is there any kind of change you would like to see made in our public schools?" More than half (57%) of the polices were satisfied with schools as they are. Of the 43% who suggested changes, most spoke of such things as curricula, administration, equipment. Only 10% of the discontented minority wanted better paid and better qualified teachers. Approximately 96 out of every 100 Americans seem unaware of the unchallenged fact that a log with Mark Hopkins at one end of it is still a far better school than the most expensive modern...