Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the concentration quota system is hardly a system any more was revealed last night by the statement of James B. Munn '12, professor of English and head of the concentration quota committee, that, of the 967 Freshmen applying for a field of concentration, 886 (91%) have been assigned to...
2. Some applicants will not return to College for scholastic reasons.
Thus America is confronted with the problem of a large group of students in every University who are not deriving benefit from the educational facilities, proportionate to the amount of money expended. This irresponsible element is wasting either the money of the State or of their parents, as well as...
This peculiar American concept has made for a comparatively low standard of scholastic requirement in the United States at large, and sent many men to college who could have spent their time much more profitably learning a trade or earning a living.
Far more significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of...