Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated farm relief; voted 47 to 44 to retain the export debenture plan in the bill (see below...
Debentures In. Trouble began when the Senate voted 47 to 44 to retain in the bill the Export Debenture Plan, ten objections by President Hoover notwithstanding (TIME, April 29). The line of cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
...tutorial instruction is to be regarded as primarily a plan of comprehensive preparation for a definite set of examinations the Harvard methods is unquestionably the more effective of the two. Tutors can block out a three years course of reading, assigning so much to the student each week, sufficient to cover an entire field of study. If the reading is well planned no dangerous interstices will be left in the student's knowledge; the tutor's comparative ignorance of certain phases of the subject can be covered over by judiciously prepared reading list...
...main function of the tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic...
...twentieth anniversary of Mr. Lowell's entrance into the Presidency of Harvard College. The progress of the University during the last two decades is so well known as to render futile any further attempt at review or glorification. Advancement in educational method such as the tutorial system and the plan of concentration and distribution has been matched by a vast increase in number of students and size of the University endowment. The brilliant and far-reaching conceptions of his predecessors have been shaped and welded by President Lowell into a working whole which maintains Harvard in its honored position...