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...University Professor, in his first year as a member of the Harvard faculty, yesterday disagreed with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold's recent report to the Eli alumni...
...Harold C. Hunt, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, took issue with Griswold's statement that secondary schools turn out students so poorly prepared for college that "the whole fabric of higher education becomes a bridge built upon rotten pilings...
Hunt, Superintendent of Schools in Chicago for six years, and a professed defender of public school education, said, "Mr. Griswold and others think of the standards of another day and times. In 1900 there were 600,000 boys and girls in the high schools of the nation. This fall, there are seven million, a 12-fold increase, while the population has doubled...
...report, Griswold said that in his experience as a teacher at Yale he could find many students who might know the course material but who might have failed if they were graded in rhetoric...
...Griswold's fourth point dealt with legal ethics. He claimed that a course in law school on ethics would not sufficiently cover the subject, but that a strengthening of the disciplinary standards would be the most beneficial improvement...