Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nothing in higher education is more important than the efficient use of the lecture hour. It is then that a large group of men, presumably interested in one subject, are brought together in a gathering which offers great intellectual possibilities. Under the lecture system which dominates American colleges, however, this hour usually resolves itself into a more or less dry text-book chapter. In many cases the lecturer merely enlarges upon the reading assigned; and in others the matter which he delivers could be incorporated into a text-book with a positive gain to clearness and cogency...
Harvard has an opportunity to help in the reconstruction. This year the Cosmopolitan Student, the organ of the association, is to be published by students in the University. Every movement, such as this one, which helps to make Harvard the cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, deserves unqualified approval and support...
...stories are neither very interesting nor very well very written. The editors as well as the authors are to blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...
...scholarship in a university is of a different, more exacting, and at the same time more interesting sort than that of a preparatory school. And ability to cram for entrance examinations and pass them is no proof of the vision and depth which is needed for scholarship of the higher sort. These men have given some indication that they possess the power of application. That application plus penetration and an unquenchable intellectual curiosity and honesty will be needed to bring scholarly honors in College. It is dangerous to rest on one's laurels...
...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 all classes of society...