Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the act every disappointed student could claim he was being discriminated against. To disprove such a charge, an investigating commission would conceivably have to review the applications of all the admitted students to see whether the preference given them was just...
...Lectures: "The inadequacy of the lecture is that, of itself, it cannot provide a two way communication between student and teacher . . . It is distressing to contemplate the fact that despite the universal dependence on the lecture system, the real keynote to education--learning to think, learning to read, and learning to work efficiently--are aims that are achieved less in the lectures than anywhere else...
...General Education: "It is our belief, however, that a serious deficiency in a Harvard Education is also a serious deficiency of the GE report; it is a failure to focus on method and on the problem of eliciting active student participation...
...Tutorial: "In the individual tutorial session the student is carrying the largest part of the discussion, and more important, the nature of the two-way conversation means that be must really project himself into what he is discussing and develop a comprehensive understanding of the topic...
...Advising: "Nearly all of the students are left to find their own way. . . . The typical student desperately wants some form of guidance, or at least a closer association with the faculty in order to be reassured that his work is meaningful, that his place in the university is important, and that his growth is in the proper direction...