Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grave Problem...
...college does not appear yet to have come to grips with this problem. If men show they are unwilling or incapable of taking advantage of the expensive opportunities of the Tutorial System, do not let them slop through four wasted years. Give them an education they deserve and need; an extra course per year, hour examinations, quizzes, and attendance. This will quickly stimulate the gifted to return into the fold, and will at least give a real, rounded education for the rest. Under this plan, the progress of the past few years, more and more graduates with honors, fewer...
...large group of students are given up as lost before they have a chance. And there appears to be nothing in Dean Hanford's report, or in the suggestions of Professor Munn's committee, which attempts to change their fate, nothing to solve what to us is the major problem of the college...
This, of course, is much the most logical solution to the age problem. But it will take more than perfect logic to convince the private schools to give up their boys a year earlier; they have a vested interest, backed by all the weight of tradition, in that seventeenth year, and will not quickly give...
...novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters in The Last Puritan are real as symbols of Santayana's philosophy rather than as people...