Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
...tries to brush the Med. Fac. away like some trouble some fly, and means to purchase immunity from attacks of the society by grace to one of its members. Nor does it take the other view. It does not go to the bottom, at shows mercy without uprooting the evil...
Davis, the second speaker for the negative, demonstrated the evil results of the free elective system at Harvard. This system, he said, has proved in many ways, unsatisfactory. President Eliot, in his inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history...
...declared that the affirmative had failed to demonstrate by concrete examples that the free elective system solves all educational problems. On the other hand, the negative had proved that the tendency of the foremost educators of the United States is against this system. The negative had also emphasized the evil effects of the free elective system at Harvard, and had illustrated their arguments by specific cases. He advocated a system which would necessitate an organization and supervision of studies by men of more experience and judgment than undergraduate students...
...speaker pointed out some notable tendencies of the past few years, showing that at present we have in this country in many industrial centres "an approximate monopoly of capital facing an approximate monopoly of labor." The result, said Mr. Baker, is either a deadlock of industry, or an evil development of "trade conspiracies" in which, as neither employer nor trade unions are willing to submit, the people are inevitably robbed...