Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French or German comes in answer to a long-felt need of preparatory schools. In their attempt to give men the thorough survey of modern languages which Harvard expects, schools have been much handicapped by a limitation at the point where a language is just beginning to interest the student. The new regulation should stimulate more study of French and German In school, and consequently lead to a lightening of the burdens of Harvard's language requirements in college...
Harvard's educational policy has been consistently toward fuller individual development for the student. For most men the language requirements have been an onerous and barren task. Any move tending to make them more liberal will be earnestly welcomed...
Hitherto a student who might have desired to take a modern language in his final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...
Even if this pretender to his crown were possessed of the three years of experience that gives the Student Vagabond his store of wisdom, his plan of action defies the very fundamentals of the profession. Who ever heard of a true vagabond engaged in so unproductive an occupation as taking an examination? His mission is to receive; not to give, and the more he receives with a minimum of effort the more successful he is. What would his wanderings profit the Student Vagabond if he were to dispense such precious knowledge in so fruitless form as a bluebook? Perish...
Such being his gainful if unblessed philosophy, the only gift the Student Vagabond can make is advice. For the next two days it includes recommendation of these lectures...