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Meanwhile, faculty distress at Eliot's elective system was growing. In 1903 came a report by the Faculty Committee on Improving Instruction, largely written by A. Lawrence Lowell. The report pointed up what Lowell considered the sad state of the Harvard curriculum. "In the college today," the report declared, "there is too much teaching and too little studying." The report went on to state that students were spending as little as 3 1/2 hours a week on courses. It also criticized the elective system for allowing haphazard choosing of courses based on how easy they were or what hours they...
...struck me as unpleasant, stiff, humorless people; and that this, with other things I saw and heard during my trip, convinced me that Germany is an exceedingly dangerous nation. Mr. Amfitheatrof reshaped what I said, which just now I will defend against anyone, into quotation that his caused such distress...
...best architects are planners, if says, positing to men like Rolferd Gropius wants to educate to whole distress and feels the school has lost sight of this...
Many Littauer students who must crawl all over each other for good grades view this procedure with some distress. With some justification, they complain that the extension students are corrupting the academic standards for Littauer's highest degree...