Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's first demand upon Rumplestiltskin was excellence in whatever he did. He was supposed to do everything well, and always to try to do it better...
This situation Rumplestiltskin could only explain as an evidence of the University's amazing confidence in its own vision of what a man should become. Surely the University must be little less than fanatical if it would continue to demand that students follow a program and seek an attitude which it was patently impossible to give them. And surely they must think this ideal highly desirable if they felt it was desirable to convince the vast majority of students that they were less than they ought to be because they could not attain this ideal...
...student with an alert and critical mind, the ideal professor is the scholar who can teach. For such a student will demand an instructor who is at the forefront of the field, and who considers the field a live one. There are, however, very few Kittridge's at Harvard now, or at any time. There are very few professors who give brilliant lectures in the morning, write penetrating essays in the evening, and give friendly dinners on Sunday afternoons...
...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...
Hopefully the professor will be encouraged to improve his lectures and to spend more time with his undergraduates. He and his instructors and teaching fellows have not fully met the present demand. They will find it more difficult to meet the future situation unless they make a concerted and conscious attempt to solve present failings.ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, Jr., took a year off to write for Adlai Stevenson in the last campaign...