Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a growing conviction among educators of late--a common conviction which has almost assumed the proportions of a trend--that this process has exceeded its proper limits. Even Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Conant, who are more comfortable glaring at each other across a ring, stand united on this point. Specialization, so they say, has gone too far when each separate field loses its meaning. Scholars have lost the true perspective; they no longer perceive the vital relations between the individual branches of learning. Education has become a meaningless chaos of information...
...practicality must also be considered. This plan creates, as never before, a staggeringly heavy load for tutorial. The tutorial staff must correlate the diverse courses which each student takes, must point out to him their relations and their bearing upon his chosen problem. If it fails in this, education becomes even more of a chaos of disconnected subjects. Required are tutors with a broad but keen grasp of the whole area themselves, and these may be difficult if not impossible to find, especially among the younger...
After the recent National Intercollegiate wrestling bouts, the various coaches assembled and passed a recommendation that the point-system of judging matches be adopted as our national standard. The present scoring method, with its lack of definite standards for decisions, can be discarded if the National Wrestling Rules Committee adopts this new point-system, which has enjoyed unqualified success in the Big Ten conference...
...tonight's contests: Princeton will meet West Point; Yale will oppose Norwich; and Cornell, Pennsylvania Military College...
Although they are not scheduled to play in the opening round the Crimson poloists will not remain idle, taking on the powerful 12-goal Essex Troop team at their armory in Newark. On Wednesday night the malletmen will meet the winner of the Princeton-West Point match...