Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which of the three, then does the tutorial system help? One would hardly suggest the second or third. Do the tutors really help the first? Not unless the object of education has really been changed. The system under which most of the professors now at Harvard were educated was one which involved learning, by self-wiled energy. The tutorial system at Harvard today has as its object a species of synthetic feeling, whereby the tutor puts an intellectual yeast-cake into the brew of the student's thoughts as an aid to mental fermentation. The test of potency is applied...
...announcement of this year's Sears Prize ought to stimulate new interest is debating as an important means of self-culture which, after all, is simply education in its true sense. It may seem drole to, suggest that the advent of radio is a reason for renewed interest in debating. Yet, with the new importance of the spoken word which radio has promoted, it is quite likely that forensic ability may return to something of its former glory as revealed in a Demosthenes, an Edmund Burke or a Daniel Webster...
...allowed space to suggest that your editorial, holding up to opprobrious ridicule not only the person but the office of the chief executive of the United States, was not only in decidedly poor taste, and un-American, but also very unlike the Harvard spirit. It will be resented by many who, though perhaps disagreeing with the appropriateness of the ban on a sumptuous inauguration (not "the coronation of the Peepul's annointed"), nevertheless see in his action the conscientious endeavor to put into practice the principles he advocates. J. S. Robinson...
...king is dead! Long live the king! It is always most welcome to youth, when men of affairs suggest paths to be taken. It only remains to decide whether or not the suggestions are worth taking. Ever since the announcement that Professor Baker departs from the University, the resentment of the students has been turned in wrath toward various human objects, but in order to live, it is necessary to adopt one's self to changing circumstances...
Charitable observers suggest that the Conservative party in England is suffering from midsummer-madness for some of its leaders are preparing to embark upon a course which would certainly dilute the democratic element in its parliamentary system. Nothing short of a remodification of the House of Lords is proposed...