Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal and affords too little vital stimulation to the student. I believe that the tutorial system as it is carried out Oxford and as it is being introduced at Harvard is a step in the process of informallzing education. At Wisconsin nothing has been done as yet to establish this system but it seems very likely that it will be in the future...
...more energetic members of the class, the instructor might well permit that freedom which characterizes the restricted composition courses. Thus without introducing a haven for the somnambulant, it seems possible to establish a universal opportunity for practice in writing, the principal medium for developing facility of expression...
...material side of life, there were a few but successful attempts which I should like to mention. Perhaps the greatest was the creation of the University Sanatorium in Leysen, Switzerland by the Swiss students. During the last year the French students raised the necessary funds to establish a similar sanatorium in the French Alps near Grenoble...
...here lies the basis of most ethical tangles. Very early in Man's development, he found that what was advantageous to him individually, when practised by everybody did not seem to be good for the whole. Then as governments were developed, a more or less efficient judicial system was established so that no longer did it profit the individual to do what was unprofitable for everybody to do. Thus, the whole was made to equal the sum of its parts again. It remains for the League of Nations to establish that fundamental axiom in national ethics...
...purpose of the Committee is, in its essence, to establish a liaison between Harvard and the various schools from which the College draws its support. It has been a feeling long existing in the University, that there ought to be some means of systematizing the relations of the College and the men who have decided upon coming to Harvard with the purpose of insuring the fulfillment of the obligations which the University owes to these men as prospective members...