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...those who are are wondering what is to be the fate of Harvard College under the New Deal which President Conant has set forth for Harvard University, Dean Hanford's report will be an extremely significant document. The specific reforms which he suggests are almost starting in their progressiveness. But of more importance than these is the general trend of through which underlies his proposals. As President Lowell left office, Harvard was in a period of slack water, a period in which the great innovations of the past two decades had yet to be reconciled with the old academic machinery...
...questionable, but the other two reforms are eminently to be desired and, as the Dean points out, there can be no harm in experimenting with any of them for several years. Even more important are the proposals put forth for enhancing the position of the tutorial system. Mr. Hanford suggests that the number of required courses be further reduced, that more of the tutoring be done by experienced faculty members, and the tutorial work be counted at least as heavily as course instruction in making promotions within the faculty. These are all reforms which the CRIMSON has advocated...
With compelling logic, Dean Hanford rejects the proposal to restrict tutorial instruction to men of Dean's List standing, pointing out that one of the chief values of the tutorial method is its capacity for stimulating a spark of intellectual curiosity in minds which the course system would never have aroused. The contrast in emphasis with President Conant's report is striking. The President would lavish money and attention on the few brilliant minds in each class. Dean Hanford declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need...
...business meeting will open the session on Friday after which Dr. Carl Brigham and Dr. John A. Lefter will discuss "Recent Progress in School and College Relations." That evening, Professor Coolidge will give a resume of the accomplishments of the House Plan; he will be followed by Dean Hanford, who will talk on "Recent Developments in College Education and Its Effect on the Relation between School and College...
President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Professor Julian L. Coolidge, master of Lowell House, will address the New England Headmasters' Association at their forty-second annual meeting in John Winthrop House common room on Friday and Saturday of this week...