Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently a true paradox that the great increase of college students has led to a concentration upon the "individual." A great deal has been said during the past few years about the undesirability of overpopulation in American universities. Mass education has become a major problem. It is interesting, therefore, to have the Chancellor of New York University heartily champion the general increase in college enrollment...
...tomorrow's academic assortments to tempt his roving fancy, but he happened to hear that M. Pierre de Lanux was to speak under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club tomorrow evening in Emerson F at 8 o'clock. His subject is "Our International Ethics," and it is the paradox of the title that first drew the Vagabond's attention to the lecture. For he has always been under the impression that anything was fair in love, war, or international politics and that perfectly respectable men who were nice to their mothers would do perfectly detestable things for God, country...
...necessity to retain some disciplinary check on the student. In a university where even the faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between fine theory and actual practice. Since they mean nothing, their abolition, except possibly for the first year, would remove from Harvard another petty trace of secondary school education...
...with assets close to $100,000,000, earned $4.58 on its common the first six months of 1930, will show (says President Selig) $2.50 more for the third quarter and at least $9 for the year?best year in G. A. T. C. history. Asked to explain this apparent paradox, President. Selig called attention to the fact that most of his business is concerned with transporting foodstuffs. "People continue to eat," says...
...rational suggestion to end this paradox would be to follow the Princeton plan. A Harvard A.B. degree would then signify that liberal education which it is the purpose of the concentration and distribution requirements to provide, while the S.B. degree would be retained by the Engineering School to designate its primarily technical training. Princeton has shown the way to a little pruning of the dead wood of obsolete tradition...