Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared the regulations of the various colleges given above can fail to observe that the great superiority of the Harvard system over the rest, including our own, is the fact that there is some plan about it, some attempt at a rational ordering of each student's curriculum. We talk vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind...
...turn to pleasanter things, let us conclude this survey by a consideration of the peculiar virtues of Harvard's "Rules for Concentration and Distribution." The chief advantage of the Harvard plan is this; from the end of his Freshman year, the Harvard student knows roughly what he is going to do with the rest of his college course. He does not stumble aimlessly about changing his plans--if he has any--from year to year and harried continually by the necessity of meeting the "requirements". He is also assigned a tutor who performs for him the invaluable service of correlating...
...hissing bombshell has been tessed into the camp of what he calls the "middle-aged moralists" by the declaration of the vice-chancellor of Oxford that the most agreeable quality of the modern student is his excellent deportment and beautiful manners. Disclaiming the idea that his views had been given a rosy bias by the environment of Oxford, he denied the implied strictures of the saying that "Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and sausage...
...advantage of the large lecture is that it enable the leaders in a certain field to reach a maximum number of students. But the inspirational influence of the teacher is bound to be diluted when adapted to the needs of the group. This diffuse quality attracts, as President Pease says, "those members of the student body who seek the maximum of credit with the minimum of effort." He suggests the division of certain kinds of courses into smaller classes as the most immediate remedy. Beyond that lies the tutorial system, which as in use at Harvard is instilling what President...
...definite step which the College has made in lessening the importance of courses and course grades. It is to be praised and it is to be commended for pursuance. The tutors are thus given an added degree of eminence in the mind of the tutee, and the student is given a further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening and the course requirements need to be made less...