Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a perusal of Dean Nichols' article it is evident that his position is justified. It is difficult for the large and unwieldy university to escape the charge of impersonalism, and to meet the volleys of those who harry the administration from distant loopholes. No longer can the Harvard student know personally a tenth part of the faculty; and for the man whose standing is secure, the intimate relation of earlier times would hardly be advantageous. In the case of the student balanced on a knife-edge between probation and "passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become...
...confirmatory evidence, dwarfing that of last February, will be offered are slim. But the mechanics of the Reading Period are in greatly improved condition. Reading lists that were delayed in appearance, some of them almost into the Period itself, this spring have been put in the hands of the student in good season. And the lists are less indicative of either of two extreme evaluations of the student's capacity for reading than were their Yuletide issues...
President Lowell has spoken of self-education as the ideal toward which teaching itself should strive, but the Reading Period is in itself such a determined step in that direction that it is questionable whether the student should be completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group...
...Reading Period of May alone will deprive the student of from two to four tutorial conferences. Compression of his work during the half year is forced upon the tutor, and filling of chinks in the field of concentration is thereby hastened. In some cases, as that of the Juniors who will in mid-October take the Bible. Shakespeare and ancient author examinations, the assistance of the tutor at the most critical period of the student's college career is clearly impaired...
...Reading Period is that it should render to its authors results of equal conclusiveness with those of the first Reading Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...