Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Tigers and Chief Boston's teams have lost but one match this season, and on paper four bouts rate as tossups. To win or tie Harvard will have to take three of these four...
...addition to lectures and the attendant cram examinations. The group, which has been carefully selected on a basis of common interest, meets once a week or even bi-weekly in a four to five hour informal session for which each student has written a paper on one aspect of the day's discussion. At the meeting each student reads his paper which is then criticized and discussed, not by the instructor alone, but by fellow students as well. The instructor serves as a moderator and export and keeps the discussion to the point...
There is of course outside reading in addition to the paper, but the normal curriculum includes only two seminar courses in one term. This eliminates the crude examination system of marking, puts a premium on intellectual effort and ability (both in speaking and writing), offers a maximum of intellectual stimulation and honest competition, and can give the group the close integration within which many individuals do their best work. I do not believe that the system would increase the work load of the instructors since it eliminates lectures, sections, and correcting of dull, poorly-written, illegible bluebooks. A few hours...
Such a radical criticism and proposal as this is may seem somewhat presumptuous on the part of an undergraduate. But as one who has become increasingly dissatisfied with Harvard teaching methods, I have felt obliged to put my thoughts down on paper. Much thought and experimentation are needed to make this plan a reality, if it is found to have any merit, but above all there is a need that the administration direct its attention to Harvard College as such and not just to Harvard University as a research center for which Harvard College is the source of teaching personnel...
...College population increased the administration was not entirely ignorant of the effect of the method it was using, and the term paper, tutorial, honors theses, and general examinations were given a new importance as compensating factors. These four things are on the right track, but they have their drawbacks. The trouble with the term paper or half-term paper is that: 1) if it is short, the student can do it in several days or a week and the rest of the time go on about his business; 2) if it is long, the student is forced to specialize...