Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. It is unfortunately true that the majority of courses that the Freshmen take are not those in which they are thrown into very close touch with the real teachers. Speaking in a manner to include the whole Freshman instruction as such, it is not as good as it ought to he. Concrete suggestions on such a large subject, and within such a small space, are not easily made; but there is one point of contact which is not being realized to the full; the proctors. The increasing success of the Senior Advisor system shows the latent possibilities in work...
...also open to criticism. The Sophomore Dean has more disciplinary work than the Freshman Dean. The lack of interest in studies, the malproportioned emphasis on outside activities, which are inherited from Freshman year, reach their full growth here. It is the year of awakening that the Freshman year ought to be; a year of a change of attitude; it is the time when the Freshman mistakes are atoned for--sometimes forcibly; and the time when the undergraduate first discovers that he is actually in College...
...change of attitude are everywhere apparent. Which may be proved by the fact that most Seniors look back upon their last two rather than their first two years as the most pleasant and profitable ones in their course. This cursory review of the situation shows that the great aim ought to be to get hold of the student sooner than is done now--attract his interest and make him recognize his own potentialities...
...necessary. There are those who often drop into the Farnsworth room for an hour or two, those who go to the Copley Theatre as well as the movies, those who find a great deal of pleasure in reading unusual books from pure curiosity, not because they think they ought to. "A man's general information is the true key to his personality", says Mr. Gay; which is not far from the truth when we consider the really useful men we know. General information!--"vestiges of an unconscionable amount of reading, observation and experience" picked up here and there...
...often has it in his power to pile up difficulties for a student by guiding him into courses for which he has no qualifications; it happens not infrequently that such advice has been the chief cause of a student's failure in his college work. The present arrangement ought to be changed to meet that drawback. A first step has been taken by providing students with advisers in their departments of concentration; that helps, although the student still often knows more about the courses outside (sometimes inside) his department...