Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American college youths have so long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result...
...study of educational methods made ten or twelve years ago when the Graduates School of Education inquired into the features of the college work which were thought most profitable by the students. This investigation started a movement at Harvard towards the shifting of emphasis from lectures to personal research and outside reading...
...time the fortnight just previous to the final examinations is crowded with thesis reading and details incident to closing up a college semester. It will also cut down the length of time taken up by formal teaching and permit the members of the Faculty to study write and to research work...
...making the first intensive study of the effectiveness of reformatory regime, Professor R. C. Cabot '89 of the Social Ethics Department in cooperation, with Dr. Sheldon Glueck and five assistants, is attempting an entirely novel research...
...will grant to the undergraduate more independence from the restrictions of a formal curriculum. It should, at the same time, grant the same privilege to the Faculty. It could be made to operate in such a manner that many professors, now giving half their minds to lecturing, half to research, and so injuring the values of both, might remain students all their lives. Such men should be paid on a scale parallel with that of the true teacher, depending on achievement and years of service, in addition to all expenses in the beginning of their weeks. The value...