Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much the same can be said for notes and outlines. Pre-digested material is practically useless for educational purposes. It can be carried in the head long enough to pass an examination; it can never be made part of a permanent store of knowledge...
Finally, the attempts to make this kind of cheating morally acceptable must be violently deplored. Much of the advertising has been directed toward this. Advertising in preparatory school papers, advertising aimed at parents, advertising about cures for maladjustment--all these try to make the business respectable. Freshmen are hard hit by a barrage of high-pressure propaganda from their day of entrance. Tutors, who now give cocktail parties, are even trying to make themselves social institutions. Their goal is to place a premium on indolence...
...physical characteristics, Templeton judges him by the sounds he makes while he is walking and by the various intonations of his voice. While Mr. X is ordinarily classified as a rather dull, innocuous commuter, Templeton would rate him as a very flat A type, with not too much variation...
...these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems. Too many courses are simply a chaos of information, disconnected and illogical, which only extraordinary minds can organize. Unusual minds can; others are forced across Massachusetts Avenue...
There are great faults in Harvard's teaching system; if the degenerate type of tutoring is ever to be driven from Harvard, there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without...