Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is a perfect example of the kind of thing that drives competent educational authorities toward nervous breakdowns. On the one hand, a basic reality of education is recognized as needing more attention, and that attention is given it. On the other, an institution purporting to train teachers acts on the assumption that the primary tasks of education have been conquered so effectively that the profession may now be indulged in recreational side issues...
Unfortunately they would be likely to laugh at the asking. Of course, they have their troubles. They, like doctors, are paid last, and of late there has been a discouraging trend toward one student taking a review and then passing on his tidbits to his brothers in distress. But, all in all, certain maestros of the schools have been able to hold their heads above water and to keep undesirable animals from the door, and they naturally show no signs of giving up. And so, the bout goes...
...midyears the Undergraduate Faculty Committee will try to determine by personal interviews what progress its fifty-five tutees have made toward their immediate ends in view. . . . By giving a Cooperative Test in each subject and repeating the same type of test at the end of the year, an attempt will be made to gain a factual estimate of their improvement. In one of these three ways, the Undergraduate Faculty may be able to discover whether it is giving its tutees the benefits they want. Lawrence Lader, co-chairman Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
More general is the criticism that fifteen scholarships are a useless if noble gesture toward Pan-American solidarity and good faith. But on more useless than are Rhodes scholarships for promoting Anglo-American relations. It is furthermore possible that other schools will follow Harvard's lead. The Refugee Plan, conceived and delivered at Harvard, has since grown into a lusty child supported by a number of eastern colleges. There is just as much reason that this plan should catch the fancy of other undergraduates...
...primarily by gestures like this--isolated and infinitesimal though they may seem in themselves--that international relations are promoted. These scholarships may well result in nuclei of good faith toward the United States, which will diffuse and permeate large portions of South American opinion...