Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entemologists will remark a new species of hybrid bug flitting about! It is called the Gad-Fly. It is red all over, but by no means reveals the hereditary black and white of its parental inspirator...
...species is peculiarly worthy of study as a type of pure freak, which occurs like the seven-year locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...
...this point it is customary to bring in "the old giving place to the new" and the rest of such shibboleths. There seems nothing more appropriate; the present situation is a hybrid, and the task of superimposing a system including tutors and general examinations on a quondam rigid course system is at best a difficult one. Unity of purpose and a community of ideas is essential to real progress; it is Edward Arlington Robinson who writes of the man "Who sees the new and cannot leave the old." In the main it is well not to have the changes every...
...fact that the tutorial system, as constituted at present, is at best a hybrid product; to a certain extent hampered by the lecture system...
...only the elements of a college education but also, the training which is now supplied by trade schools, institutions like our Engineering School, and especially the instruction which is obtained in our Graduate School of Business Administration. All these elements will be fused together to form the new hybrid among educational institutions. While it is still much too early to draw definite conclusions, it is difficult to see wherein such a plan is any great improvement over places like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, except for one very important factor, the entire organization, social and instructive, will be based...