Word: defects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those who witnessed the birth and death of the first Student Council, the superiority of the new organization is apparent. Nevertheless the new body although more representative than the old, will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre...
...Greenleaf Fund and the other "aids" which the Faculty employs to assist men who are working their way through College. In addition to this, by doing away with the advertising and the duplication of work incident to a competitive system, the cost of tutoring would be substantially reduced. A defect,--at least from a pedagogical point of view--of most existing tutoring is its dependence upon printed notes. A seminar in which the men themselves are forced to take notes is perhaps a more arduous, but certainly a more wholesome way of acquiring knowledge, than a tutoring session in which...