Word: setchell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inglis Lecture for 1932, by William Setchel Learned, Ph.D. '12, of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is a remarkable little volume, which may well prove to be of much more than passing significance as a good piece of work in an interesting series. What the volume advocates would be radical, even at Harvard, where the principle involved has been recognized ever since President Lowell introduced the general examination. If it can be put into a word, it is the active abandonment of courses and marks in courses as the ground-plan of an education in school...