Word: disciplinarianism
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...republic," he explained, "and advancement depends entirely on the individual. Almost all the professions and businesses open to men in the United States are open to the citizens of the republic. The chief justice is usually one of the prominent lawyers and the chief of police a capable disciplinarian. But before a citizen can be a lawyer, he must pass a strenuous bar examination. Those who are successful in business eat at the costly restaurants run by their fellow citizens, while the poor must forego deserts and cakes and eat at cheap lunch rooms...
This deficiency of harmony, which is somewhat difficult to analyze, is more often than not the result of an unwarrantable omission on the part of the professor. Secure in his perfect knowledge of the subject, and confident of his ability as a disciplinarian, he neglects to treat his students as human beings and travellers on the same road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless...
...make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures of our educational system. "Colleges...
Dean Randall then passes to condemnation of the too-prominent position which athletics hold in our colleges, and counsels that they should be speedily reduced from their high estate. As a disciplinarian he could have made more effective attack upon athletics by praising them. Don't they teach our students punctuality? No man is ever twice late in reporting for football practice. Don't they teach thoroughness? No athlete who neglects the work required of him can win the success which he covets. Hence few neglect it. On the athletic field students are given complete and thorough examination...
...being "balked." By flatly recognizing that athletics are run on a system often, superior to the discipline of the college, by studying their technic, and applying it to their own methods, our faculties could more easily oust athletics from their present absurd position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students...