Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this vigorous, various study is neglected, undirected, by the leaders of formal higher education. Founded in 1900, conferring annually since, the Association of American Colleges has touched but once upon adult education; in 1910 a paper was read on university extension courses-but the discussion drifted into academic bookkeeping (credits for study) and away from community service...
...debate is moving now from very rigid, severe standards of presentation toward a less formal delivery. The Harvard-Yale contest, whence the discussion proceeds, was an experiment pointed in that direction; and like any early experiment in the arts, it tended to bewilder, and its effect was equivocal. The judges, with their eyes open for logical consistency, voted one way, and the audience, delighted by a steady flow of capable wit, voted the other. The confusion arose, I believe, from the simple fact of distribution. What the new school of debating wishes to do is not to place humor...
...With this change in our plan of learning we must also make a change in the system and spirit of teaching. The present lecture system, except in rare cases, is too 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...
...formation of potential scholars back to the schools. One obvious plan would be to raise the standard of entrance examinations. In this way the secondary schools would have to give many of the freshman courses which properly belong to them. But the danger of causing more cramming of formal facts or added emphasis on the mere technique of passing examinations is too great to render this solution entirely satisfactory...
More than 50 men turned out yesterday afternoon at the formal opening of the lacrosse season, and the size of the experienced squad forecasts a banner season in this sport...