Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, Dr. Abraham Flexner, philosophical critic of educational systems, made a thorough survey of American, English, and German Universities, concentrating in large measure on the undergraduate college. In the present Atlantic Monthly he turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant insight finds them not even "within hailing distance of the university standard". For his criterion of the university Dr. Flexner turns back to the Johns Hopkins graduate school founded in 1876 by Daniel Coit Gilman. President Gilman's educational principles were few but sound. A graduate school should place its emphasis...
...which Blanche Yurka opened Monday night, the lady becomes so bored with her existence that she makes a plot for Chekov or for Ibsen. Perhaps because, in the pattern of an older generation, there were no clubs or sports to keep women busy, or because they congenitally lacked any insight or interest in research before the days of women's colleges, their only outlet lay in society or love. Even today, it is possible that a Brattle Street spouse, unthrilled over the development of domestic industry in Brabant in the Middle Ages, might find either alternative essential...
...student of current history, Professor Baxter, has been especially interested in the movement for world peace. Last autumn he delivered a series of eight Lowell lectures on the "The lubrication of the Ivon-Clad Hattleship." Freshmen will have an opportunity to get a true insight into the complex problem presented by the powers in the Far East. The lecture will be preceded by a paine vecital in the lower floor Common room at 7.15 o'clock...
...shape of the committee to discuss economic questions. The chief value of the Assembly, however, is still for the collegian who, while his activities do not lie directly in these fields, possesses an intelligent interest in current affairs of international scope, and for him who desires to acquire some insight into the bases and conditioning forces of contemporary problems without so much consideration of technical points as will make such discussions tiresome or incomprehensible. The technique of procedure in the Model Assembly, as in the actual workings of the League itself, revolves mainly about the central idea of pacific persuasion...
Doubtless considerations of space prevented your article of today from commenting in more detail upon Professor Spalding's career as an educator. If Harvard owes the foundation of the Division of Music to Professor Paine, its remarkable growth is due entirely to the insight and policies of Professor Spalding. He realized the extent to which "musical appreciation" might enter the lives of the general student, and his lead in this respect has been followed all over the country. He was among the first to recognize Professor Davison's capacity for interesting the undergraduate in choral music, with results which...