Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School of Education goes about it in another way, taking prospective secondary school teachers and attempting to acquaint them with the problems which they are going to have to face, especially in public school work. The A. M. in teaching combines the practical work of the Education faculty with thorough knowledge of the subject to be taught, gained from courses under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The new committee, divided in personnel as it is between the two faculties, should draw them closer together in approaching the problem of secondary education. If the activities of the School...
This is Harvard's approach to the problem, following the ideas of the President's recent annual report. By its admission requirements the college helps the schools form their curricula; by its School of Education the University can send out men well trained and aware of the problems ahead. The University cannot dictate to the schools; it can only influence them indirectly, So the findings of the new committee will be eagerly awaited, and may well affect both what Harvard requires of its candidates for admission and what the University will teach prospective school teachers, superintendents and headmasters...
...school in relation to the University. Yesterday, however, the University connected with a sharp right when a bureau offering a review in criminal law called off the tutoring upon pressure of being asked to do so. From this it might seem as if the University had a relatively easy problem, necessitating only the asking of Manter Hall, Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the College Tutoring Bureau to stop their cramming...
...University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent on the course reading itself. Then, in the words of former Dean Pound on the problem, it will no longer be a question of "the blind leading the blind"; the battered tutoring schools will have quit the ring...
...little college called Hiram College, and here had been launched one of the most revolutionary plans of education anywhere in the country. It is co-educational; ordinarly there would not be anything extraordinary in that, but in the case of Hiram's plan the girls present a problem...