Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interrelation of research by professors with the instruction of undergraduates is no less important. There have been unfortunate attempts to discourage research by undergraduate teachers, or to minimize the value of research in the life of the professor. Still more unfortunate is the tendency of the professor himself to withdraw more and more within his personal field of interest for his happiest life, and to set this apart from his contact with students so that his instruction becomes mechanical and artificial. His lectures are not rewritten, his discussion groups are perfunctory, and he breathes freely only when in his laboratory...
...really vital contacts between professors and students seem to me nearly always to arise when the students come into intimate association with the professor's moments of research. There the real character of the teacher appears. Things he cares most about are conveyed to the student from his love of scholar ship and his devotion to new-truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities...
...vitalizing of the courses of study which we all desire is to result. These fields are; (1) the student and his support; (2) the student and his choice of life work; (3) the student and his political status; (4) the student in academic and non-academic life; (5) faculty research and undergraduate instruction; (6) the choice of the college and the choice of the field of work; and finally, (7) the college student and find other college students. In all these fields, it seems to the, gaps exist, which prevent under-standing, and which prevent students engaged in one field...
...this were done and the larger and more juvenile element thereby removed, in all probability a far more serious spirit and attitude would pervade the young men and women of the Junior and Senior classes. Those classes could then be organized in preparation for the research work of the graduate courses. One of the reasons why graduate students in an American university are so much more closely supervised and guided in their work than similar students in a European university is that when they arrive at the graduate school of the university they must be taught research methods of work...
Speaking on "An Evaluation of American Colleges," W. T. Foster '01, Director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and former President of Reed College, compared Harvard to Reed, to the advantage of the latter...