Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sadly enough, this phenomenon is all too rare at Harvard. In too many courses do lecturers who give the effect of being half-hearted, or ill-prepared, or both, send their students away at the end of the term with a wholesome distaste for the subjects which they teach...
...understand it, the promotion of professors and their increases in salary depend not upon their ability to teach men or to inspire them to work, but upon their ability to turn out at stated intervals a book upon some subject pertaining to their field of research: Because of this system there is a double temptation for professors to neglect their students, because it is more interesting to write books and it is also their best means of winning a larger salary. The result is that the student, as a human being, is almost entirely neglected. . . . I believe a professor should...
Harvard students have long since relinquished the hope that lecturers will fill them with enthusiasm for the subjects they teach. But they can hardly be blamed for bestowing their sincerest applause on the exceptional professor who is willing to make the effort to be interesting...
...more consideration of the undergraduate body, and less attention to the schools for advanced study. In defense of the administration, it must be said that the graduate and undergraduate schools are symbolic. Neither could exist without the other. Men of the highest calibre would not be content to teach elementary courses without the resources of the graduate schools. We should lose their services. The greatness of Yale lies not in the superficialities acquired with the college or Sheff degrees. To keep pace with other universities, Yale must be more than a home of sweetness and light, more than a school...
...expressions of this sort are given. While the undergraduates demand more contact with their instructors and more "honors" courses, the departments quite properly demand scholarly work to justify promotion to a full professorship. The instructor hasn't time for both. Though he may be a better man to teach than the one who contributes countless ingenious notes to learned publications, if he devotes his efforts to the undergraduates, under the departmental system as it now exists, he cannot be advanced until some other university recognizes his strength and offers him assurance of a permanent job. There are, to be sure...