Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teaching abilities in proper proportion simply can not be done; yet teachers must be had. The tutorial system is a real advance along this line; the progress made so far is unimpeachable. The Faculty side of it, except for the English Department, is now well-organized. It remains to develop the refinements, and in this the attitude of the tutee is of overwhelming importance. The old story again--"What you put into...
...problem of adjusting the enrollment of some of our popular courses to the facilities for instruction in them again presents itself. Every year we have the situation of three or four courses whose registration far exceeds the anticipated number. For one reason or another a large number of students develop a sudden desire to hear this or that professor, or to study this or that subject or period. The result is that three or four times the normal number of men receive approximately one-third or one-fourth the attention which it is the pride of many professors to devote...
...strange as it may seem Dean Hawkes also reports that "Columbia College has no ambition to develop the social side to the extreme of converting the College into a social club, or at best a finishing school for men". One is thus led to believe that the student body need entertain no fears that such a ridicuious measure as a course in "department and social conventions" will be added to the college curriculum for some time to come. Truly, the Columbia undergraduates would be the laughing-stock of the college world not to mention the general public were he forced...
...Must Develop Factory System...
...second problem is to develop industry under the factory system, while avoiding the evils of industrialism. Slowly but surely the mill and factory are taking the place of the village and household industries in China. But there are no labor laws, there are no restrictions of hours, there are no minimum wage guarantees, there is unblushing exploitation of the labor of children. The pace is set by foreign firms, closely followed by the Chinese employers themselves. One does not need to assert that there is only one side to this question in order to argue the point that herein lies...