Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before his election as president, Lowell, professor of Government, took no pains to hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that...
He knew he wouldn't be Eliot's choice for a successor, but then he knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to...
As the Administration had expected, Lowell lost no time in making his policy known. While President Eliot had pleaded in his final report for a sweeping adoption of the three year degree "to save the College," Lowell, in his inaugural address on Oct. 6, 1909, declared, "The most vital measure...
Not content with that alone. Lowell immediately went on to further academic reform. Within a year the College had adopted his plan for concentration and distribution, which took first effect with the Class of 1914. Under President Eliot, any student who had successfully completed 16 courses was eligible for the...
Lacking any systematic program of education, Lowell argued, students had come to regard course work as "an inconvenient ritual" and to assume that they "could hardly be expected to take true scholarship seriously." It was "clearly unfortunate," Lowell believed, for any student to spend four years in an atmosphere where...