Word: developed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruction and would subordinate it to other methods. Our procedure has been too much that of attempting to give the students the results of work done by their teachers. As against this our teaching must be based upon work done by the student himself. We must attempt to develop in him intellectual independence and initiative. . . He must learn to think and to know what to think about. To this end we would substitute for lectures and instruction a scheme based upon reading, conference and discussion. . . . . We would then supplement the student's own work by conference with teachers who would...
...fact that the season is only a week old and the men have had very little chance to develop yet, no definite decisions were made on the strength of the first track trails which were held Saturday afternoon...
...days of the opening of the School, each entering student in order to learn at once his personality, interests, training, and capacities, and assign him to an advisor likely to be especially desirable for him. This committee will also gather information, especially useful to the advisors, will develop further methods of training them will arrange for confer excess of the whole group of the advisors from time to time for discussion of their problems and methods, and will also, as seems desirable, make recommendations regarding changes in the personnel in order to reach ultimately the group best suited to this...
...really one more movement in the right direction, as far as Harvard undergraduate education is concerned. That the plan is, in the category of its own helpfulness, wise and essentially necessary is true. One can only hope that in the ramifications which develop from its function, some method may be devised whereby every undergraduate who, early or late, appreciates what the college can give him in cultural and intellectual understanding, is allowed that freedom from routine entanglements, which alone can promote true cultural and intellectual advancement...
Though the English universities afford a fruitful example, the intention is not to imitate them, being rather to develop more fully our own undergraduate life. The project could be equally well described as a combination of the virtues of the American small college and the American university. It is democratic in that it gives every young man his chance in that it gives full scope to men of marked abilities, it is something which all must desire democracy to be. Though the present movement at Harvard is sponsored by undergraduates, it has long been contemplated by a group of graduates...