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...become tempered in time. The predominance of Economics in the House although slight may easily become permanent. As has been said before, Kirkland House labors under physical handicaps. If it is to take its place as a ranking House it must do so through the development of a distinctive "esprit do corps". There has not yet been time for this development, but it has been outlined in the progress made during the first year of corporate existence...
...removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground. He twists his leading lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France?reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes off in the damaged plane. The one (Richard Dix) whom the director hoped to kill, follows him in a sound...
...largely the result of the unique manner in which Harvard is directed. Two units of the House Plan are in their second year of existence, and dissatisfaction with the rents charged, evident on all sides, has been recognized by the Masters. It does not speak well for the esprit de corps of the directors of the Plan: President Lowell, the seven Masters, and the seven Senior tutors, that they should only recently have acknowledged by word and deed that the rents are too high. In frank and open discussion the matter might long since have been aired; the accomodations planned...
...fruit of the abandoned Experimental College at Wisconsin. In the light of this experience Dr. Meiklejohn now projects a new scheme of education. The new system will have a number of small colleges, entirely separate units, each with its own autonomous faculty. This device is intended to foster an esprit de corps among the students by making them "one in purpose and understanding in the midst of all their differences." The faculty, Dr. Meiklejohn claims, will be improved by being smaller and more coherent, and in closer contact with the students. His experience has led him to believe that this...
This contrast points to the fundamental faults in both systems. The dependence of the various units of the House Plan prevents any individuality in them as educational institutions. But the experimental colleges may be so independent that effective cooperation will be blocked. The esprit de corps and the autonomous faculty may make a student in a particular college forege the benefits of sitting under an outstanding teacher in another college. The destiny of the two systems, the House Plan, and of the experimental colleges of the future, would seem to lead them to a common ground, where the House Plan...