Word: methods
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...equivalent to the first two years of our college. In the European systems these two years are added to those which go before to form an institution viz: the lycee. I am convinced that the European organization is better than ours. I am convinced that the spirit, content and method of work in the Freshman and Sophomore years of the American college are more closely assimilated to those of the High School than to those of the Junior and Senior years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added to the four years...
Certain, colleges, tend to stamp their mark on the students that attend these institutions. They cannot entirely equalize individual differences but they can make an undergraduate body enough of a unit so that it has different qualities from that of another college. The same environment, the same method of instruction, similar customs and traditions tend to form a whole from a heterogeneous mass of preparatory and high school graduates...
...think they have done quite a little in the way of unification. More might be done by a senior course which would attempt to unify different courses after they had been taken. This was done formerly by the old senior course in philosophy. I think that there is one method that ought to be tried and that is the giving up of the division of knowledge altogether. Our election system is based on the division of the field of knowledge into subjects, and the student takes five at a time. I hope that, we are going to discontinue the attempt...
...Fresh in Method and Manner...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, has invented a thousand entertaining pieces of business where I had left great gaps in the play--and every one of these is entirely in keeping with the major intention of the play. The result is a production which seems to me entirely fresh in method and refreshing in manner...