Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of March, all members of the class of '39 must select their field of concentration, and it was to assist the class in making this choice that the Committee has decided to ask men in different subjects to talk over the problems involved...
President Conant is convinced that the records of the Prize Scholars in college prove that men of sufficient ability can be selected from secondary schools. He feels also that the present condition of affairs is no more than a beginning, declaring, "a very large number of promising young men throughout the nation are ready to apply for such scholarships, once they are established on a country-wide basis . . . with adequate care it is possible to select the best material...
Statistics are assuredly not flattering in surveying the contribution made by the selected schools to the government, either past or present. The sum total of twenty-seven United States Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, and one President (out of twelve selected school's) should cause a blush to come to the face of every loyal Grotonian were it not for the inescapable fact that the American government, by its fundamental structure and development, has much more to do with the situation than any failure on the schools themselves. A government of forty-eight particularistic and jealously provincial states is hardly...
...authorize course reductions for their tutees. The objection has formerly been raised that the Freshman Class is too large to allow tutoring but this group would be small enough to enable administration of the plan, it would have an exceptionally small mortality, and it would be more intellectually select than the undimensioned mob which now inhabits the Yard...
...course, even if none of these secondary effects were produced, the mere fact of having a regular Western contingent in college, and a very select group at that, helps against too great provincialism. Also, in spite of the probably correct opinion of the scholars that Harvard is not yet a National Institution, they agree that they "get a lot out of it", and enjoy it besides. These goods are directly and immediately produced by the new scholarship policy. But without the indirect effects of advertisement, the good to Harvard as an institution ends with the influence on twenty scholars...