Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most striking feature of the registration figures in recent years has been the lack of growth of the College. For the past dozen years the number of undergraduates has remained practically stationary. To be sure, there is nothing alarming or even serious in this fact alone; for mere numbers should never be an end of higher education. Of great importance, however, is the failure of the College to grow in its western representation. One of Harvard's ideals is to be a national university; and this means that it must draw its students, as President Eliot has pointed out, from...
...sympathetic spirit, and presents him to readers in a way to attract and induce the perusal of Carlyle's own work. This is its purpose, as the explanatory title, "How to Know Him," indicates. Professor Perry passes from a penetrating and concise account of Carlyle's youth and intellectual growth to a discussion of his literary theory and its application in his various works. Quotation predominates for Carlyle is allowed to "explain himself and his views, as adequately as the inexorable count of pages will permit...
...great growth and influence of the Law School, however, came under the regime of President Eliot and Dean Langdell, when the case system was evolved,-the system now in use by most law schools in this country. A recent noted investigator from Vienna expressed the opinion that students were probably better prepared in the University for the actual practice of their profession than anywhere wlse in the world. Since Langdell took control in 1871, the Law School has to its credit not only the evolution of the case system, but also the creation of an academic, non-practising group...
...library and some insight into the problems of administration with which the management has to struggle. While Professor Coolidge does not make much of the point, it is nevertheless evident that the Library has suffered from the war, and is in need of gifts to maintain it and enable growth. Mr. Lodge, in "The Meaning of a Great Library," gives an eloquent appreciation of the value of a great collection of books such as that for which the University is famous...
Perhaps the most important justification for a college education is that it does form the best transition from boyhood to manhood, that it gives opportunity for the growth of the maximum of responsibility with the minimum of risk. If, however, supervision on the part of the office is carried beyond a certain point, there is great danger that more harm than good will result. While possibly gaining from better direction of his activities, the undergraduate will inevitably lose in the larger and more vital matter of the development of individual responsibility and initiative...