Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seem to be two functions of the present mush maligned examination system. First, to disclose the extend of the student's knowledge. Second, to make him study. In the graduate schools, where the students are more mature and experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order...
...course will deal with the structural and functional aspects of business. This will be accomplished by bringing the student in contact with certain cases in which the financial problems that underlie the business system are involved. The course will have a legal value, however, since it will abstract the accounting and financial from regular business and law cases. Only such aspects of these problems as are of most service to law students in practice will be considred...
...Taussig's objections to certain first year courses as being useless and elementary are undoubtedly logical. The root of this evil lies, however, rather with the system of secondary education than the governments of advanced institutions. Elementary courses are offered not because they are elementary but because presumably they fill a need. That need once removed, the vacuities in the Freshman mind once made whole with a firm foundation, the courses, theoretically, should cease. Such action has been evidenced in the College by announcement that English A exemptions are allowed to men whose abilities have been tested and found worthy...
...scholarship is not of great moment. Other extra curricula activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...
...question of revising the system at Harvard on a three year basis was first raised when Charles W. Eliot '53 was President of the University. Opinion was divided as to which policy should be pursued, and the issue gave rise to a great deal of discussion. The officers of the University considered the proposals made at that time, and finally the matter was put to a vote in a Board of Overseers meeting. The Overseers gave their approval to the four year plan as at present in force; that the three year case had many adherents among the members...