Word: views
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...current number of the Monthly contains a harsh editorial comment on the young instructor at Harvard--a somewhat exaggerated statement, written from a not altogether unbiased point of view. After discussing the absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates...
...they are fully competent to criticise intelligently the themes at least of Freshmen, if not of upper-classmen. Such men are not "bound to be" narrow. If they are of the right sort, they bring to the work of the small section new ideas and a different point of view. The failure of those younger instructors who have proved unsuccessful (and the number is gratifyingly small) has usually been due to lack of the personal qualities necessary for successful teaching rather than to lack of knowledge, and such defects are rarely eradicated by two years o graduate study...
...DIVINITY CLUB. "The Ministry from a Practical Point of View." The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. Common Room, Divinity Hall...
...William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Eastern Massachusetts, will deliver the second of the series of addresses on the ministry, being held under the auspices of the Divinity Club, this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Common Room of Divinity Hall, on "The Ministry from a Practical Point of View...
...tacit editorial--a good one--may be gathered from the title of the leading article of the issue, the second installment of a series called "Varied Outlooks" and presenting various points of view of college life. There is no reason why such expressions should not be given and received in the Advocate with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind...