Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearted attempt to compromise with the practical. With that attempt I sympathize, in theory. Cambridge has outgrown its unconcern with the contemporary, but American universities have had two centuries of modernity. Nevertheless the question of purpose needs to be reconsidered in relation to university training everywhere, and in this particular I prefer the English practice. Ostensibly the English system is run to produce bishops, judges, members of Parliament, Higher Civil Servants, and Pure Scientists. As these are assumed not to need any practical qualification, it is natural to train them--except, of course for the scientists--on the classics, history...
...their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
...regime, a Freshman interested in languages is assigned to a lecturer in philosophy, a man who has no interest in such a course of study and who knows nothing about the program of that department. Prospective Freshmen should be asked to indicate that field in which they have a particular interest, and advisors should be assigned on the basis of this tentative preference. Such a system provides a group of men who are fitted by temperament, experience, and interest to perform the task of guidance...
Sophomores who enter the Business competition will be in a particular advantageous position due to the fact that there are now only a few members of the Class of 1937 on the Board. As a result of this, Sophomores who are taken on will be in direct line for the Business managership at the end of next year...
...personal and familiar essays and is not so much concerned with presenting a view of American contemporary political thought as it is in collecting in one volume the thoughts and literary efforts of men not primarily interested in politics and sociological problems but in expressing ideas on their own particular speciality. For those who would find a collection of periodical literature valuable it is an excellent compilation. A bibliography of outstanding American essays published in American periodicals during 1934 is a valuable supplement...