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...would provide only for financial or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial security with doubled political control and meddling. Under the proposed evolution Mr. Roosevelt must go the "whole hog" or the Chicago teacheres will be pacified to the definite detriment of the secondary school system...
...difficulty of giving recalcitrant or stupid Tutees the benefit of the system without detriment to others more worthy has been a bone of contention over since the tutorial method of instruction was put into effect. The broad outlines of the problem should be familiar to all. The CRIMSON wishes merely to set forth its conclusions on the matter. First of all, it is apparent that the general examination should be a prerequisite to the A.B. degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which...
...initiative and thus occupy a position reserved by the Personnel Department for some other applicant. If the individual takes this course, he places the department in the position of assisting an inferior man to the exclusion of an abler one. The result in either case acts to the detriment of the individual, the University and the undergraduate body as a whole...
...method of direction employed at Purdue University by Mr. J. E. Walters, Director of Personnel. His aim is not primarily to at square pegs into round holes, but to enable students to develop their personalities while in college, so as not to emerge as misfits to the detriment of themselves or their future employers...
...together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair's control of his craft is sure enough to permit him an almost improvisatory lightness in places without the slightest detriment to the narrative, and the consistent use of tinsel scenery, paper flowers, and music box accompaniment is quite in keeping with the fantasy of the whole...