Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...growing influence of the modern university depends on the efficiency of the men it produces and puts into the work of the world, said President Eliot. The past 40 years have seen some notable changes in the educational system of the American schools. The changes extend to all grades and divisions of the school work, and they have resulted in the broadening and deepening of that work to a remarkable degree. First among these developments has been the steady tendency to increase the period of residence at the University. We are now planning a new business course at Harvard which...
...plan proposed for the establishment of a Graduate Business School in the University, announced by President Eliot at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented...
...proposed Graduate Business School is a recognition of the scientific principles which govern the highly organized system of modern business, and, if properly carried out, should prove a valuable addition to the University...
...remarkable that in a college where modern literatures are so eagerly studied, so little attention should be paid to those of Greece and Rome. This neglect is partly due to the worthless utilitarian protest that we should study only things which we can sensibly use in our life, and partly because of the undergraduate belief that in Harvard the study of the classics is not made worth while...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE: "In Defence of "The Pearl.'" Professor Schofield. Common Room, Conant Hall...