Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bear the brunt of the new system of assignments. Because of the widely varying composition of the Houses at present, some men will find that they have been put into a House where their own set is submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism by Masters. Once the Houses have been forced into a position of social equality...
Left over from a time when course grades were, almost exclusively, the basis of the degree, the general honors award has become sharply out of harmony with the ideal and aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the thesis, and the advantages of concentrated study in one field culminating in general examinations. Aside from its inadequacy within the College, there is marked inequity in granting the same cum laude on such different grounds of achievement. The degree should be a badge of something approaching maturity of outlook; nine...
...hurdles and totalling 131 out of a possible 225 points, Harvard coasted to victory in the G.B.I. meet last Saturday, while the Freshmen won their part of the meet with a commanding score of 111 points. Eight new records were made and two old ones were tied with ideal weather conditions and a fast track aiding the track and field contestants...
...present unfortunate condition cannot be laid to deliberate falsification by those in charge of the courses. Either they have set as the length of the laboratory period the time in which a Faraday or a Richards could do the work, basing their schedule on the talents of an ideal experimenter rather than on those of the average burdened pre-medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum...
...problem was now to determine how, as well as what, to teach. The lecture system was first adopted for the young school, but within a year the Langdell case system was accepted. The ideal was to establish business as a profession, therefore a degree was given...