Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium...
It would have been uncharacteristic of Lowell to stop while things were going his way, and indeed, he did not. In his annual report for 1908-09 Lowell wrote, "It may be hoped that under the new rules for the choice of electives, some form of general examinations... on the...
By 1915, Lowell, who had already established a wide reputation for being anything but complacent, set out on yet another academic crusade--tutorial. One of the most formidable criticisms of his plan for general examinations had been that the average student couldn't pass such an examination without help in...
Thus in the first decade of his administration, Lowell had reshaped the pattern of undergraduate study and laid the foundations for a comparable change in student attitude. With the new requirements for concentration and distribution, tutorial, and general examinations, undergraduates found their academic life substantially changed. The would-be dissipators...
More so than many of his colleagues, Lowell was disturbed by the student housing situation which prevailed when he took office in 1909. Because the enrollment had increased faster than the College's physical facilities, many students were unable to live in College housing. Those who did were little better...