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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That this innovation will tend directly to raise the standard of scholarship is theoretically apparent, for the one large class of men through whom this end can be accomplished, will be most affected by the publication of marks. That class comprises men who, although perfectly able to make an average of B's, are content, as it were, to skate along on the thinnest ice which the Office will allow. Were their marks made public, a sense of pride and the knowledge that many friends know them to be capable of much better work, would combine to make these...
...schools and state universities in the past decade was due to the fact that the common man wished a broader education for his children than the classical curriculum formerly provided; therefore, agricultural and commercial schools are demanded by popular sentiment. Mr. Woods said the new ideals of vocational institutions tend to dignify the common trades by raising them to a science. Furthermore, these schools discover the students' abilities, stimulate initiative, and, because all are working toward a common end, bring teachers, alumni, and undergraduates into closer contact with each other. After these papers the discussion was carried on by Professor...
...loafer will find it harder, a condition that certainly would suggest a higher level of undergraduate scholarship. If the scholarship within the College is any cullerion of the standard of entrance requirements, it would follow also that the new system would raise the bars a peg rather than tend in any way to lower them...
...Harvard College obtains almost exactly the necessary 26 points, it would seem that the requirements for entrance are well adapted to the curricula of the schools at which men prepare. It is true, however, that this average is a mean of two extremes, about which the individual cases tend to group themselves. Men are liable to enter either with points to spare or with conditions; and a subject for discussion lies in the fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which plan their programs of study without reference to Harvard. These...
...discussion of academic rank, however, the questions of outside interests and standards of success must be considered. The goal for which the men from public schools try is largely high marks and mental training, and to this end they tend to sacrifice athletics and social diversions in general. On the other hand, the boarding-school graduate measures his success as an undergraduate by the prominence which he attains in fields of activity which are not purely scholastic. Consequently men of this group play the greater part in the broadening "outside interests"; and naturally enough do not or cannot devote...