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...through the media of the crammed and hurried elementary courses in college. The preparatory school has both the leisure for adequate instruction and the advantage of imparting such instruction when the youthful mind is more receptive to the mechanical rote necessary for an elementary understanding. A number of secondary curricula are already so arranged that it is possible to anticipate most of the degree requirements, thus allowing the student in his college years more latitude in his choice of continuing his study in a more advanced field or of turning his interest elsewhere. Shunting the languages back to the preparatory...
...they have failed to do, our schools are in large measure responsible for this country's shameful record of crime." He deprecated the fact that today nationalism is developed, even in unsuspected subjects, as philology and geography. In general terms he developed the thesis that "it is in extra curricula activities that the secondary schools are now most effective not only in the clubs and assemblies, and the like, but also in the more or less intimate personal contacts of teachers with students which increasingly are provided for by instituting home-rooms and providing advisors...
...invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula activities and especially athletics. "The stadium," he says, "overshadows the classroom--athletics have a dollar sign in front of them...
...extremes are each modifying the other. Harvard is not so medieval as the Tribune editor would have us think and the great Western universities, with their curricula covering world knowledge and world experimentation, are not dissipating their efforts to the extent that New England pedagogues imagine...
...become ever more apparent, the fact that the gap between the universities and the secondary schools not only has by no means been bridged, but rather is increasingly widening. Such must, indeed, inevitably be the case, the colleges advancing rapidly along the lines both of greatly diversifying their curricula and at the same time emphasizing specialization, the schools remaining essentially stationary both in courses of study offered, and in the attitude taken to them...