Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton University, exemplar of educational democracy, last week found itself in the exciting position of one who must reaffirm, or retract, or redefine the policy underlying his conduct. For years Princeton has had an honor system and an undergraduate self-government body, composed of seniors. The honor system has functioned almost perfectly. Undergraduate responsibility has been demonstrated to a lesser degree by the senior council, the powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...
...Yale matmen are reputed to be among the strongest in the East. Last week they administered an 18-3 defeat to the Princeton wrestlers, bringing their total of victories up to four, with only two setbacks...
...Overseers on the reading periods before comprehensive examinations states that "it is expected... that for the first few years there will be an increased number of failures among the students who are disposed to neglect their studies". This illustrates the difference between the educational policies of Harvard and Princeton whose platforms are essentially the same but whose execution of them differs. For in the absence of an American tradition for the form of education that they are striving for Princeton alters gradually making precedent as she goes, Harvard changes abruptly...
Harvard will undoubtedly first attain the goal, but it seems that Princeton achieves greater success on the way, for no break is ever sufficiently great to cause an eruption--the Four-Course Plan was after all but a faltering step toward absolutely voluntary attendance at lectures no more than recommended by preceptors, absence of classes, and post-vacation examinations. Harvard, on the other hand, has greater freedom for students in the matter of lecture attendance, has now instituted something of post vocational exams, and the daily recommendation by the CRIMSON of certain worthwhile lectures is evidence that the students...