Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener or Boylston, but across Massachusetts Avenue to the tutoring schools, where he is likely to remain the rest of his undergraduate days. It might be observed parenthetically, however, that this last danger could be removed by intelligent examination...
...excellent plan, and one essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry through Harvard into life. As the Freshman suffers, society...
...couldn't resist going down to the old ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction he had followed coming home down the coast last summer...
...whether an all female cast was desirable. They both agreed that it was definitely a novelty and would not be a permanent feature of the stage. Miss Buchanan declared, "It was rather boring to travel around without any men in the company." Miss Wilson, on the other hand, thought it was a great experience...
Miss Armar voiced her opinion on Harvard and its inmates. She said that she did not think the buildings were so new and well kept. As for Harvard men, she said; "They are much more sincere than I thought. I always believed that they were showy and false, but they are decidedly handsome and very pleasant...