Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In order that the University may continue its part in the scientific preparation of teachers, Holmes asked for a liberal financial endowment to the Graduate School of Education, emphasizing especially the need for better housing facilities at the School.
Asking for gifts to the extent of three million dollars, to take care of scholarship funds, research, and Faculty additions, Holmes concluded that "neither the fortunes nor the idealism of the graduates and friends of Harvard have suffered so severely that such gifts are not within the bounds of reasonable...
Across a deep pit, the faculty of Arts and Sciences has traditionally glared at the faculty of Education. Its antipathy has arisen from the attitude that a Graduate School of Education is little more than useless and from resentment of the inference cast by the latter's very existence that...
Dean Holmes annual report is a significant educational doctrine. For it has logically and comprehensively stated the case for Graduate Schools of Education as training grounds for teachers. Such schools have two separate functions. They train educational administrators whose sole function will be formulation of general educational policy. They also...
Yet, according to Dean Holmes, a good Latin teacher is versed not only in Latin but also in general educational theory: the psychological, the philosophical, and the sociological bases of education. Given such a technical knowledge of teaching itself, he will grasp his problems more fully and cope with them...