Word: taussig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reviewing the development of higher education in America before the Liberal Club last night, Professor F.W. Taussig '79, Professor of Economics in the University, reached the conclusion that the growth of graduate schools will either force colleges out of existence or necessitate the adoption of a shorter undergraduate course. "America", stated Professor Taussig, "is unique in the long duration of schooling precedent to a professional career. With four years in college, two to four years in a graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting...
Professor Taussig pointed out that changes in both graduate and undergraduate schools are being made all over the country, in the direction of shortening or eliminating the undergraduate course. Johns Hopkins has eliminated its first two years. This virtually means that undergraduate life is eliminated, and along with this change the junior college is gaining...
...Summa Cum Laude is no longer the acme of scholastic endeavor," Professor Taussig concluded, "and men can be prepared for graduate schools in three years, if the first year is not made to deal with elementary subjects. Those men who desire four years of academic work can take a year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Those who do not can be given a sufficient education in three years...
...soundest substantiation of Professor Taussig's advocacy of a three year course for a degree in Harvard College may be found in the proverbial assumption that the old order changeth. That the ultimate goal in many cases has been transposed from an A.B. or S.B. to a degree in one of the graduate schools is an undoubted fact. This is an age of specialization, as one is so often reminded, and specialization requires advanced and particularized training...
...whether or not he may be properly termed an educated man at the end of that shorter period of time. If, at the end of the three years, the man is as well grounded in whatever constitutes "a general education" as he was following a four year term Professor Taussig's theory is acceptable. But if he is educated only in the sense that he is fitted for further scholastic work, then one must reject even primary consideration of the proposal...