Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON's belief that such a view--maintenance of the lecture system in conjunction with tutorial work--is most logical in consideration of the lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently...
...disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been and are present, however, and the sooner the relationship of the tutor to his tutee and the relationship between the student and his course requirements are made clear, the sooner will the system reach its best development...
Since both lectures and the tutorial system are to form the bases of Harvard's educational plan, the question arises as to the proportionate contribution of each. It has been made clear that the tutorial work will never completely swallow that accomplished by lectures; then, what establishes the line of demarcation? Is the lecture side to dominate and the tutorial to assist, or, will the opposite hold true? Or is it possible to have an equal division of labor...
...from one course in his Junior and one course in his Senior year, providing he has presented a satisfactory equivalent. That equivalent is realized by additional tutorial work, work more in the line of individual research than the usual tutorial assistance. This fits in admirably in balancing the lecture system with the tutorial, making the former of less importance as far as credits are concerned and emphasizing the value of the latter...
...himself. This remark holds rather well in practically any case; nowhere more timely than in matters dealing with the more theoretical aspects of existence-- education for example. So keeping the obvious moral well in mind, when the Vagabond decided to make a few observations anent the current tutorial system, anent the current tutorial discussion--entirely unofficially be it understood--he decided also not to urge that something should be done about...