Word: scholasticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bothered by the taunt that an honorary scholastic society ought to do something besides exist, Phi Beta Kappa last week published Vol. 1, No. 1 of an earnestly sprightly organ chronicling 0 B K activities. Facts revealed in the first quarterly issue of the Key Reporter:
Finally the question of curriculum could be solved by giving ten courses each year; ten of them stable fare and the others varying to serve the variegated demand. The regulars would probably be made up of the old scholastic guard: History, English Literature, Government, Economics, and so forth. The variables...
The College can merely define the borderlines between scholastic honesty and dishonesty; the Professor in the course concerned can make an announcement that he disapproves of using tutoring schools for help in a particular book report or thesis which is intended to be a test of original thinking; both can...
Of course the College has no direct authority over the Tutoring Schools. But the repercussions from the students will soon show them that it is to their interest to live up to the scholastic ethics of their customers and of their customers' mentors.
What follows is a bit of the Vagabond's credo. Not that your Old Fellow's stint around your heads--but it's one way of suggesting to you gentlemen who would be on the scholastic road this morning something about the Chinese philosophy of life. So, bless his soul...