Word: responded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no doubt that in the junior and senior years at most of our big universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects...
...near Massachusetts Hall that Harvard built its "Indian College." The aborigines, however, failed to respond to this plan to given them a higher education. Only a few came to the College, and only one graduated. He died soon after. The Indian College was abandoned...