Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the introduction of the tutorial system, Harvard has made a great concession to the importance of teaching, of inspirational contact between instructor and student, in undergraduate work, but before the system can achieve any true educational success the constraining of feet of the divisional examinations must be removed. With them constantly in sight, literature becomes for teacher and taught a mere field of cut and dried grain that must be hastily gathered in before the storm. It is unappetizing but necessary fodder--not a thing of beauty, allve, and to be enjoyed for its own sake...
...only do these examinations set strict limits on the relationship between tutor and student. I believe that they are capable of exercising a very unwhole-some influence in respect to the kind of person chosen to fill the position, thus further impairing the contact I feel to be so important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power...
...greater development of the contact between student and teacher, English A, as well as the tutorial system, offers opportunities worthy of inquiry. In this first year of college work a man may wield great personal influence over his Freshmen, and it is important that the work be made sufficient appealing to draw those who have the power to exert such an influence. Some motion has already been made to give the instructors a chance to express their own tastes in the particular kind of work they are to teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course...
...their professors, is an unfortunate condition irremediable in light of the present conception of scholastic values. The important point in President Lowell's discussion of the master's degree is his acknowledgement of the capabilities of the present graduate matured by divisional examinations and the guidance of tutors. The student of distinction in realizing that he is by rights a master if in title a bachelor, must feel a gratification in the different connotation of those terms...
...your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either, I hope that you will find here a welcome which will encourage you to pursue learning with the utmost freedom. We have a habit of dividing the members of the University into two classes, professors and students, but I often find myself dissatisfied with such a classification. It draws a very misleading distinction between our members, for I am sure you will find that most if not all of those who are catalogued as professors are themselves students, busily engaged in the prosecution of their studies...