Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remains for the Crimson to define its stand more specifically. Obviously there is a defensible type of tutoring. But beyond this there are a variety of mal-practices that are either peculiar to Harvard's tutoring schools or at least grossly exaggerated in them. It is these which the Crimson attacks...
There are great faults in Harvard's teaching system; if the degenerate type of tutoring is ever to be driven from Harvard, there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without...
...their proper place and are a corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
...sound like Gertrude Stein. When is public opinion public opinion and when is it private opinion publicly expressed? In Public Opinion, Professor Albig offers a simple definition-opinion, he says, is some expression on a controversial point; public opinion is a result of the interactions of persons in any type of group. A typical, professional volume, piling up to 493 pages, including essays on language, propaganda, newspapers, the Gallup Poll and innumerable quotations to plug holes in the argument, Public Opinion is nevertheless more interesting than most such books...
...present sculling coach is an example of the coach of the new type, a year-round position, for which the plan calls. His name is as widely known in his sporting world as that of any competitive coach. And the champion games with Yale, with intensive coaching before them still continues the intercollegiate thrill for those deserving it. And finally, let it be remembered that athletics are moulded for the undergraduates, not for the coaches...