Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seems to be only one solution which will adequately take care of the situation. Setting tuition fees to correspond to the actual and complete cost of education is the answer. It is in no sense a new idea but too often it is suggested without its equally necessary corollary. If the tuition is to be raised to cover the expense of instruction, then student loan funds must be established to provide the equality in opportunity for intellectual development now made possible through endowed education or through the wide distribution of expense as in the case of state universities. This...
...ratified atmosphere which is "good against the disease" is also "good for the disease" and brings to the surface the latent weakness of his lungs. He becomes a regular patient and gives up the idea of an immediate return to the world below. From there on the terrible forces set in motion are carried to their ultimate conclusion...
...well be said, then, not that the tutorial system--it is never twice the same--but that the tutorial idea places a restraint upon the conduct of athletics in Oxford and in Cambridge that is wanting in America. Men direct athletics who are concerned about scholarship. They make of athletics a part of education. They are teachers more than coaches. Yet this explanation does not directly point to the solution of American problems. Here too the voluntary coach was the first preceptor in sport. The lure of big profits and large fame--characteristically American lines--proved stronger than ever they...
...much less sinister than her photographs indicate . . . She is so garrulous, so lovely a person . . . She is not my idea of an active Bolshevik...
...nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will...