Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mirrors and pictures, guiltless of the crime of area, are allowed full freedom of the walls. Such accoutrements, intelligent, it must be admitted, are more feminine than male. Broad-beamed gentlemen denizens remain skeptical of the idea...
Self-education demands freedom and responsibility. President Eliot understood this and was striving toward freedom and responsibility when he brought in the elective system. He was adopting university methods. In the same spirit we have added the concentration requirements, the general examinations, and tutoring. Now we propose to take another step in the same direction and enlarge the students' opportunity and responsibility for work by themselves...
...cramming period in which to make good earlier neglect. But the great majority will welcome "time for consecutive reading and for other large tasks, free from interruption by a schedule that breaks up" their "work into small unrelated units." In short, they will welcome a greater freedom because it will permit and demand greater self-reliance...
...grave task lies before the Faculty. Unless the proposed change is inaugurated with caution, forethought minute attention, and rigid determination to exact the responsibility that goes with freedom, it will either accomplish nothing or will wreck more students than we can afford to lose. Advisers, assistants, course instructors, examiners, and "the Office," all must put their shoulders to the wheel. Our main reliance is upon the tutors. Without them the plan would never have been suggested and without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard...
...frequently urged that American students are too immature to make good use of more freedom. Our experience at Swarthmore proves that the best students worked better with much less class instruction. The whole country will watch the results of the Harvard plan as applied to the entire student body. The test will be whether it brings Harvard men up to their examinations better prepared in their various subjects than they are at present...