Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Question...
...articles in the current issue of The Nation concern themselves with the question of higher education. Glenn Frank discusses the "Revolt Against Education" and suggests a method by which the colleges may more adequately effect some progress against the huge flood of learning which is now engulfing them. Professor Mussey of Wellesley has another and more personal suggestion. Both are, each in his own way, attempting to outline one particular flaw in the present college system. And both, therefore, are merely polishing facets of a large and imposing, many faceted jewel. Yet even such isolated endeavors are in their fashion...
...right in believing that something should be done to fit the college man for his new world. Yet the question of method is difficult to get at from the abstract. The system is not everything. In fact it is very little. The man is really what counts...
...predominately a proposition of living together. The greatest good to the students will come not from the studies or lectures during regular school hours, but from the close association during all hours of the day for eight months with outstanding men of character, culture and personality. There fore, the question of personality and character of the members of the Faculty transcends in importance their exact academic attainments...
...graduates of Preparatory Schools whose parents wish to give their sons a year of travel under exceptional auspices before entering college or business. About one-third are undergraduates who want to receive credits for their year's work so they will lose no time, but many ignore the question of credits, whose parents are interested more that their sons receive a broad education rather than a technical one based upon a degree. The other third are graduates, who want to take up special studies for which this trip would be especially suitable, or general postgraduate work, or those who want...