Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which plan their programs of study without reference to Harvard. These conditions have given rise to the criticism that Harvard is losing its grip upon the high schools and to a plea that an effort be made to renew its hold. But has the University ever had any influence on the plan of study in such institutions? When it is seen that more than half the public high schools of Massachusetts have not sent to Harvard a single boy in ten years...
This is not a plea for wearisome grinding at set tasks. There can be too much studying of courses but not too much work upon subjects. One may welcome Mr. Ware's ideal of undergraduate activity--that the maturer graduates should be treated with the respect they really deserve, and by pointing attention to things worth doing to arouse in them the intelligent interest which they are ready to manifest. This might, as the writer suggests, be afforded in the later years of undergraduate life by leading them to concentrate upon practical questions of real difficulty...
Besides this major inquiry into the University's efficiency, there are three minor ones, making in all an amount of criticism which is an excellent indication of that spirit of mutual frankness which President Lowell so much desires. The first of them is a vigorous plea by Mr. Cochrane '00 for the establishment of a course not merely on, but in Socialism. In resonant periods he berates us for not living up to our responsibility as "the foremost educational institution in the country" by turning out each year a goodly number of such enthusiasts as he is. I suspect, however...
...Athletics" tells something of the complex problems that he is trying vigorously to solve, and of his ideals in the athletic education for the weak as well as for the strong; Mr. Kuttner comes after him with an exposition of the plans for reclaiming Soldiers, Field and with a plea for sacrificing in their behalf the luxuries now bestowed on University teams. After Mr. Kuttner comes Mr. Schoonmaker with a suggestion inspired by Dartmouth for securing a new gymnasium. As a frontispiece to these discussions of athletics are pictures of athletes in action and at rest. Captain Little appears...