Word: pritchett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-known charge of overemphasis on outside activities Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, adds the more serious charge of collegiate insincerity. Schools and colleges, he says, pretend to do more than they can really accomplish, and hence the real indictment against them is their insincerity...
...that outside activities have been over-emphasized, but educators, interpreting these activities through eyes trained under different conditions, are too much inclined to magnify the evil. But the charge of insincerity in colleges is more serious. This "pretense of doing more than can actually be accomplished", to which Dr. Pritchett gives greatest prominence, is, after all, a charge that colleges do not really "train the habits and powers of the mind"--the aim of a liberal education according to Dr. Pritchett...
President Lowell, of Harvard, expects the Bok peace prize to evoke new ideas for the administration of international affairs. President Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation, feels it unlikely that the award will produce any feasible recommendation other than a recommendation for some sort of " international association for common education." President Faunce, of Brown, thinks the studying done for the award will widen the American horizon, as does Chancellor Emeritus Jordan, of Leland Stanford. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, believes the award may prove "the most helpful stimulus yet proposed for making articulate the desire of the American people for such increased...
...Henry S. Pritchett, Pres., Carnegie Foundation
...will be recalled that the storm-center of Dr. Pritchett's report for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was the simple statement that Education was beginning to cost a vast amount of money, and that the reason for the increased cost was the increased desire for what might be called "fancy courses." The schools, instead of serving a well-cooked table d'hote, were vying with each other in the elaborate diversity of their a la carte service...