Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study the problem you'll see that in Belgium, as in so many other countries, Moscow would like to destroy us to our foundations. You know their formula: "Divide to master...
Just what individuals make up the student body is the first matter of import. The Harvard degree may be meaningful to an applicant in social, intellectual, or commercial ways. The Committee on Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most...
Instruction remains the significant problem area in this as in other colleges. The lecture system, first target of many reformers, has many desirable elements for a large institution. It is, however, no panacea. Its excuse is the means of allowing a "great" man to speak to large numbers of people, and when a lecturer is mediocre or worse the system is less than worthwhile. Lectures should, therefore, be considered not as the only educational method at Harvard, but rather as one of many systems or combinations of systems available to departments or faculty men planning their courses...
...lecture system is particularly weak when unaccompanied by other elements designed to unify the individual's education and to bring him into closer contact with the faculty. Further experiments with small section groups might lead to a partial fulfillment of this requirement, but the key to the problem, which is perhaps the most dangerous within the educational picture of Harvard today, still lies in tutorial...
What is needed on the question of tutorial is, first, less argument and more cooperation and compromise, and, second, more thought about the problem at the center of the University and less option for the individual departments. Tutorial is dying--in fact, is as close to dead as is imaginable--because it became financially impractical in its original form. In the financial rush to get away from it, compromise has been almost negligible, and it is this compromise which might save the elements of tutorial which make it still the only sound way to unify education in a lecture system...