Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit charged that the University and Dean Griswold "misappropriated and converted to their own use" Puente's idea for a series of loose-leaf reports and services covering Latin-American tax law and procedures...
...should have a beginning, a middle, and an end." This seems reasonable enough, but Hoffman then suggests that it really need not have a middle when he says, "A reader should be able to read the opening and concluding portions of the thesis and at once have a clear idea of what the author is talking about and of what he thinks he has demonstrated." Perhaps all one has to do is stuff the middle of his thesis binder with old Gen Ed papers...
...think, learning to read, and learning to work efficiently in groups--are aims achieved less in lectures than anywhere else." In other words, the lecture system bears only occasional relevance to President Lowell's cherished principle of self-education. The tutorial plan was an essential part of that idea, and the House system its natural vehicle. For above all, the tutor is not intended to be another lecturer or quiz master, but the original contact from which informal intellectual relationships develop...
Just as with the College as a whole, the strength of the House depends primarily on the strength of its staff, and the ratio of tutors to students. The New York Times Magazine succinctly expressed the idea in 1930: "The success of the House plan eventually depends on the tutor who furnishes the manpower of the educational plant, of which the House is a mere shell." At present, while the House possess potentially strong staffs, their manpower in relation to the number of students in each House is negligible. As the number has increased, the proportion of tutors has decreased...
...faculty members in both existing and new Houses. When a professor works and holds office hours in a particular House, he is more likely to dine there than in the Faculty Club or a restaurant, and such informal contacts can easily develop into important channels for the exchange of ideas. Within the House the professor may eventually come to feel himself a member of a stimulating social and academic community, and until that time, an office in a House can be made more pleasant than a crowded niche in Widener or a grimy office along Massachusetts Avenue. As Eliot House...