Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton men and Bates men were somewhat mortified last week. A survey made by the Modern Language Association isolated their colleges as the only two, among 148 leading dispensaries of higher learning, that do not offer courses in U. S. literature. Princeton, to be sure, was contemplating the revival of a rather sweeping course called the "Literary History of American Ideals" (Milton, Burke, Paine, Franklin, Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whittier, Longfellow, Whitman); but Bates had not even contemplations to report...
...corralled into a required course. Because of their disinterested presence, such a course must necessarily lack spontaneity, must become, for many at least, a bugbear. Around that course, designed to enable "the student to work out a rational view of life", there will grow rank vegetation: tutoring schools will offer to sell "a rational view of life and raise your grade a letter--or your money back." At section meetings, the unwilling will be hand fed a predigested philosophy. As Professor Lewis remarked in Philosophy A, philosophy should be only for these who are troubled by its problems. Others have...
...time the required hours were reduced a considerable number of advisors were appointed, each of them to offer to a small group of students assigned to him personal advice as regards routine work, advanced voluntary effort, reading and the like, having in mind that the usual student comes into the Medical School without having gained in his college much independence or judgments in such matters. But the experience with this advisor system has shown it to be inadequate...
...candidate for distinction in his senior year, to do practically what is done under the present system, it does not save him from losing those delights of a cultural and intellectual nature which a less strenuous senior year would allow. Thus it is evident that, though the plan does offer panacea for present ills to one kind of student, it does...
...would establish contacts between men of different classes in the proposed colleges, contacts at present the good fortune of the few. Such contacts are highly necessary. To think and to converse on a class plane implies a staticism little affected by lecture experiences. And, further, the plan would offer an opportunity for birds of a feather to fraternize with birds of a different hue. In any university, preparing its men for modern life in whatsoever calling, this is most desirable. If democracy means anything, it is more than desirable. And to those who built the college, it means something...