Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention by virtue of less onerous extra-college duties...
Both the system and the student attitude should be changed. The instructor can be less inaccessible,--the student more receptive and intelligent minded. Reforms to stimulate new interest in scholarship should be carefully discussed and considered before the changes in the system of instruction here at Harvard are finally decided...
...last Saturday. The first eight took a small lead at the start and pulled ahead considerably in the first mile. On the turn half way down the course, the second crew cut the corner and gained a little, but the first managed to keep a lead of a little less than a length up to the finish...
...root of most of our social problems lies that of education. It has been customary -- too customary -- to dismiss any difficult problem with the statement: "If we had better education this would take care of itself." But, although these words have become very trite, it is none the less true that reforms in our colleges, secondary, and elementary schools are very necessary if we are to be able to face the new problems which confront the world...
...makes it necessary for them to effect the actual changes, but it would seem that discussions of proposed reforms in which the student body is adequately represented would be very profitable. They would add another point of view: that of the younger generation; a point of view which, while less stable, is valuable because of its vigor. A step in the right direction has been taken. The Student Council has appointed a committee to present to the Faculty suggestions for the elucidation of the system of concentration and distribution. But this is not enough. The student body as a whole...