Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salutary one. But it seems that conducting specialized work along with the general would establish a more equable balance between the two. A student with three full years to absorb his entire subject for examination at the end of his course will have sufficient background by his Senior year to attempt a specialized job in the form of a thesis, while he is finishing his general work on his field. Each portion of his work should profit from association with the other. The final divisional examination then becomes a true test of general knowledge clarified and made more valuable...
...inception of this experiment had as its basis a desire to dismiss as early as possible the requirement of a survey of a large field, with a view toward selecting a small portion of that field for highly specialized work in Senior year. A written examination at the end of Junior year closes the consideration of perhaps five hundred years of history, and leaves the candidate free for leisurely work on a subject of his own choice, untroubled by the spectre of divisionals just before graduation...
...Senior, then, is thrown into the work of a thesis and concentrated study on a restricted field with a background so hastily assimilated that it is unwieldy for practical purposes. Specialization founded on this will lead in all probability to one of two things: intensive concentration on a small subject to the point of pedantry, or, more dangerous still, a mental confusion arising from insufficient absorption of background. Here the specialization becomes a hindrance rather than a help, a confinement rather than a liberation of the mind...
...ticket of admission to this field of scholarship in the Senior year is a passing grade in the written divisional examination the year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...
...their current. College obligations under the supervision of the master of the house and could also cooperate with the tutors in meeting emergencies which were outside the province of the latter. It is improbable that they would play any more important part in the new houses than in the Senior dormitories, and yet it is important that someone be on hand to inforce discipline when necessary. Whereas the tutor could do this, he should not be starred in a dual role...