Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Castle closes with the following remarks: "I must admit that I found the teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English...
...personnel, the organization, markets, and finance of the particular business that they enter. But it sends every graduate into this practical experience equipped with a knowledge of business principles and mechanisms that will make him understand from the start the relation of his particular job to the whole scheme; and this knowledge ought to make his advance more rapid than that of the young man who begins without this preparation. The school realizes that the business leader must have aptitude, character, initiative; and that no sort of instruction or experience will make good the absence of these native qualities...
...scheme calculated to encourage the entrance of men of training and high ideals into American politics, especially any scheme tending to their enlistment in municipal government, should receive attention. Such a scheme Professor Hart has taken up, as announced in his communication on Wednesday. It presupposes two things for success: The permission of the University to count practical work in municipalities or other forms of government for a degree, and the establishment of fellowships enabling college students to take time for such work. Whether or not these moves will be made, will depend somewhat on the men who are interested...
...other incidents to the heavy managerial work of a Harvard major-sport can be systematically treated. For this the present rough-and-ready duties of the position might very properly be considered laboratory work. Such a course, however, would of itself presuppose an upset of the entire scheme of unhampered undergraduate competition. At least until a much more definite outline of the proposed change is presented, we do not believe that its possible virtues outweigh its positive defects...
Anyone interested in this idea is requested to communicate with me by letter, and I will go into the details of the scheme, which is at present not advanced to the point where direct offers can be made. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART...