Word: duals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above quotations are taken from the essay printed below, which was submitted in the Crimson essay contest by Edward Brooks Ballard '27, under the title "Harvard's Dual Educational System." This essay, which is one of the two contributions winning honorable mention in the contest, will be followed in the near future by the other, submitted by James Harry Smith...
Looking at Harvard's educational system as a whole, what do we find? a dual system. We realize that this has been the ultimate goal. President Lowell declares that "there is no intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction. Both are necessary. Each of them has its own merits, and both are means to a common end, the highest development of the individual student." It was therefore not to supplant the course method that the tutorial system was inaugurated at Harvard...
Honorable mention has been awarded Edward Brooks Ballard '27, of Lexington, for his essay "Harvard's Dual Educational System," and James Harry Smith '25, of Tiptonville, Tenn., for his essay "Harvard's Tutorial System and its Future." Both of these essays will be published at an early date. The board of judges who passed on the 42 essays which were submitted consisted of Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney...
...University the later date was offered to enable them to present a complete line-up. Among the men whom the Harvard-Yale forces will have most to fear in the meet are Porritt, the sensational New Zealand sprinter who last year broke the 100-yard record in the English dual meet and captured second in both the hurdle events, Lord Burnham, who holds a 12-foot pole vaulting record, and Lowe, the English captain and star hurdler...
Four veterans, undefeated in last year's dual contests, will support the team this season, and much promising material is expected from the Freshman team of last year. Practice will be held at either the Charles River Country Club or the Weston Golf Club, the final choice being as yet unknown...