Word: dean
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Worried that the house of Harvard may be in a state of disorder similar to that of the secondary schools, Dean Hanford considers in his annual report a new plan of concentration for the Plan B student. He recognizes that like most colleges, Harvard, in striving to educate the scholarly and non-scholarly at the same time, faces a dichotomy almost insoluble. Perhaps, he says, the traditional system encourages too much specialization from the men who prefer a general education to a degree with honors. Yet he points out that the needs of those preparing for graduate study and those...
...fact. For a degree lecturing is easier than tutorial, yet for an ideal some individual consideration is superior to none. Thus the C man wants a compromise between the two; he does not object to tutorial if at the same time he can have excellent lecturing. For this reason Dean Hanford's suggestion has great appeal-that the traditional scheme may in part be adjusted to those disliking specialization by improving the courses taken primarily for distribution purposes and by providing a large number of stimulating lectures...
...fresh spring afternoon twelve years ago, a stout, bald American and a compact, bright-eyed young Swiss lingered over lunch in Leipzig's famed Auerbach's Keller. "This is the place," said Dr. William Henry Welch, dean of U. S. pathologists, shifting his big cigar to the other side of his mouth, "where my career started.'' He told how he had met great Dr. John Shaw Billings in Auerbach's Keller half a century before, how he and Billings had worked to establish at Johns Hopkins the first modern medical school...
...climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual instruction is submerged beneath a mass of competitive symbols and scholastic rigmarole. On the other hand, the effect is to turn the headmaster into an executive charged with the training of his students to pass college boards, not to enter college with...
President Conant's committee, the School of Education, and the Dean's Office can do much to resurrect the secondary schools. Already the English college board has been slapped by the stiffening of requirements for English A. They might encourage the merging of the Educational Records Bureau, whose examining methods are notably progressive, with the conservative, horribly inadequate College Entrance Examination Board. When conferring with, headmasters about candidates for admission they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds...