Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger lies in having as tutors men who are of sufficiently broad views and interests to prevent undue specialization: but action by the Faculty last year preventing a man below Group IV of the Rank List from becoming, except in an unusual case, a candidate for distinction was a step towards this end. This rule which did not come into effect until this fall, serves to emphasize in the mind of students and of tutors the fact that a man who cannot do work of better than a C grade in his general run of courses is not encouraged...
...genuine Yale type an ogotistical one? Is there a Yale type? Is the genuine Princeton type a pleasant rather self-effacing one? Above all, is this true of the Harvard man? Don't you honestly thing that someone should step in to tell the truth about these matters? I for one do not agree with Miss Kelley when she says: "Of course, all that education can do is to give you the finest use of your natural advantages. I merely say that Harvard best develops a man's sensitivity and social consciousness...
Harvard's latest step forward is the recent establishment of the pre-examination "reading periods," of two or three weeks, during which formal lectures and tutoring will be suspended. Both students and instructors will be required to remain in residence and it is expected that an assignment in reading and the prospect of the examinations in the immediate future will be sufficient stimulus to keep the undergraduates working. The various departments of the University are to decide for themselves whether the suggestion will be put into effect and the provision is also made that the recess will not apply...
...policy, in devolving greater responsibility upon the individual student and in allowing him greater personal initiative, is following the same general lines as the changes which have preceded it, the tutorial system, the general examinations, and similar innovations. It is difficult to understand why this most recent step should not achieve equally successful results...
Harvard will undoubtedly first attain the goal, but it seems that Princeton achieves greater success on the way, for no break is ever sufficiently great to cause an eruption--the Four-Course Plan was after all but a faltering step toward absolutely voluntary attendance at lectures no more than recommended by preceptors, absence of classes, and post-vacation examinations. Harvard, on the other hand, has greater freedom for students in the matter of lecture attendance, has now instituted something of post vocational exams, and the daily recommendation by the CRIMSON of certain worthwhile lectures is evidence that the students...