Word: manners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...communication column of the CRIMSON is designed to afford a free discussion of any not too trivial question. Serious articles on either side of a question are always welcome. When two or more articles take up an identical phase of a problem in a similar manner, however, the CRIMSON feels justified in only printing the best one of them. All articles should be signed by the writer's real name. The CRIMSON also feels at liberty to suppress armless, hopelessly written, trivial articles on any subject. Any contributor whose article is not published may learn the reason by inquiring...
...extension of the method of discussion is greatly needed. Certain advanced courses, particularly in theoretical subjects, are given most successfully in this manner. In the extreme form the instructor becomes little more than a moderator, presiding over, guiding, and pointing the discussion. Sometimes the instructor freely states his ideas, and defends and explains them. This is probably the method best suited to undergraduate courses. It provides for the introduction of the lecturer's views as grist for the student's thought, thus combining lecture with discussion. The reaction from the minds of the students aids the lecturer in making himself...
Many very theoretical courses, however, are still conducted by the lecture method. Even advanced courses, in philosophy and economics, for example, are given in this manner. As a system it is clumsy and wasteful; as it is a fetich in education which should be superseded as quickly as possible by more intelligent methods...
...attract men who are not primarily interested in the debating as such, but who are interested in the vital national and international questions of the hour. It can do this best by choosing its subjects among these problems and by laying stress upon general discussion of them in a manner which requires previous thought and preparation...
...Cornell Sun, in its post-victoriam number, reprints under the heading "True Cornell Spirit" a paragraph from the New York Tribune commending the manner in which the Cornell supporters received the news of their victory. "In place of the wild dash to the gridiron and the rollicking snake dance, the Cornell men stood in their places and sang their college hymn. Then they hurried across the field, and, grouping before the Harvard section, cheered for Harvard." While of course Cornell's display of the victor's courtesy was in order and is appreciated, the fallacy in the Tribune's remark...