Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young men are the same at a university as they are at a small college; they have the same inclinations and desires, the same healthy ambitions, and the same feeling of "growing up." The difference is that at the university they mature, or seem to mature, more quickly, which is...
Nor is there any effort made to effect a change. Social intercourse is entirely a matter of individual option, and the men who sit beside us in classes have no more idea of how we lead our lives than we have of how they live. Then, too, there are many...
In an attempt to make the system of student advisors in practice what it is in theory--a place to which Freshmen can turn in the many perplexities not serious enough to merit the attention of a faculty advisor, the Committee of the Student Council in charge of the appointment...
In this shifting evolution toward specialization the college is becoming less and less adapted to its environment. Prestige and responsibility is being transferred to the graduate schools, while the college is becoming a secondary institution. It performs the function of a "background", at best a mere beginning. To the average...
Under the system which Mr. Erskine proposes, the student would study a few great isolated men, and a little of their immediate environment, but he would get no idea of the continuity of history. Each great man is a product of his environment, and if he represents the synthesis of...