Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind has not the unity of a poor house beef stew.....Many students at Yale are not sure of what they are majoring in until the end of their Junior year. Some do not find out until they graduate. Some never know--but enough...
...lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently, in reality if not in theory, a smaller percentage is really equipped with an academic point of view. The evils of the increase...
...extremely important Reading Periods, is the one definite step which the College has made in lessening the importance of courses and course grades. It is to be praised and it is to be commended for pursuance. The tutors are thus given an added degree of eminence in the mind of the tutee, and the student is given a further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening...
...done about this", he is in imminent peril of making a fool of himself. This remark holds rather well in practically any case; nowhere more timely than in matters dealing with the more theoretical aspects of existence-- education for example. So keeping the obvious moral well in mind, when the Vagabond decided to make a few observations anent the current tutorial system, anent the current tutorial discussion--entirely unofficially be it understood--he decided also not to urge that something should be done about...
...detailed information upon which the tutor relies. Professor Eaton believes that a tutor is not intended to impart information, but to aid the student in giving verbal expression to his opinions upon the subject matter covered in courses, by which knowledge becomes an integral part of the student's mind, instead of a carefully catalogued list of facts...