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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fewer Lectures in France...
...body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical as was the corresponding step in the College; but it is significant...
...movement during the last few decades. No longer is a true missionary a man whose purpose is to force his religion upon someone else. The modern missionary makes life easier where it is hardest. It may be that he is a physician in a country like India, which has fewer doctors than the city of New York. In this capacity he establishes hospitals that save thousands of deaths every year and extinguishes plagues that produce untold tragedy. Or he may be an economist, educator or business man who works to make living conditions better in countries where people have difficulty...
...France, in and interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "The students of Harvard and other American universities," he continued, "bear a larger responsibility in respected to the guidance of reconstruction than those of any of the foreign colleges. In the first place, America has lost fewer of her young men than any other country engaged in the war, and also it is to her, as Mr. Wilson said recently in his Boston speech, that Europe looks for leadership in the present era of reconstruction...
...points out, a case of discrimination. It is merely extending to the capable sudents the advantages that they deserve. American universities offer too few of such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...