Word: ideally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American colleges are distinguished by, among other things, a variety of purposes. Harvard College has committed itself by tradition and by frequent statement to the particular ideal of the "liberal education" as its field of activity. Speeches, articles, and books by the faculty and administrative officers of the University have reiterated that Harvard intends to produce neither technicians nor carefully stamped wax educational dummies, but intelligent, useful citizens--men, in other words, who have the broad background and mental vigor to be able to understand and evaluate the issues facing the Free Society in the twentieth century...
...time the College must be awake to the possibilities of new methods of instruction. Some courses, especially in General Education, have already experimented with the use of papers instead of examinations, and more can be done in this area. In any case, examinations should be brought nearer to the ideal of educational usefulness by more careful marking and return of the papers to the students...
...offered the individual at Harvard. $60,000 spent by a Committee on the relation of Harvard and the student would certainly produce results as interesting and as significant as those of the General Education Committee. Such a group would at all events help to create a thesis or an ideal at which the College could aim. It might also, in the long run, create a more positive education than that which Henry Adams so clearly described, an education which would leave the mind of the student free, and make it alive as well...
Edward D. McDougal III '48 captured the George B. Schier Prize of $250 for an essay entitled "The Ideal of Neo-classic Poetic Diction: Translation and the Homeric Model." Honorable mention went to Eleanor M. Millard, Radcliffe '48, Richard Haven '50, and Arthur W. J. Becker...
...haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...