Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question proposed for the last of the Open Forums: How far should students control educational Policy? is one which other colleges have in recent years tackled with more or less success and by more or less commendable methods. The survey of our own Students Curriculum Committee has already led to changes in the plan of courses, while at Dartmouth last year, students carried on a careful investigation of the curriculum and suggested wide changes many of which were adopted. Contrast with this the rather undignified symposium of courses published last fall by the Harvard CRIMSON in which each course...
...magazine begins with "A Preliminary Report by the Liberal Club Committee on University Policy" Here is stated the thesis the elaboration of which completes the issue. After a careful and complete statement of the new admission ruling, expressed in question and answer form the writers conclude that the new plan is in direct opposition to the democratic traditions for which Harvard has always stood...
...Next to killing, stealing, and lying, drunkeness is the worst vice known to civilization. Aside from those three nothing so quickly destroys dependability and effective organization of effort, which is the basis of civilization. The only question is whether the evil can be controlled as well in another way. I do not believe...
...should have for more scientific study of the effects of alcoholic drinks, and then a general dissemination of the knowledge gathered in this way. The question is primarily a social one and the average person should be shown how greatly to the advantage of society as a whole Prohibition...
...surprising grasp of the fundamental problems of education, as well as the particular problems of Harvard. Undoubtedly Oxford undergraduates could, produce an equally constructive criticism of their university, but they never have and would not be listened to if they did. Undergraduates over there accept the "system" without question, although not their teachers' pet ideas...