Word: westing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of President Eliot's recent trip to the West was to investigate the universities and the secondary schools. The trip had been very instructive, as it revealed points which could not be learned by reading...
First among Harvard's many gifts to the West is the elective system. Although this system was thought of by many long before it was introduced at Harvard, yet as it has received its most liberal development in this college, it can justly be called a Harvard institution. Western universities have been struck by Harvard's success and progress under the elective system and have been eager to adopt it as far as their resources would allow. The election of studies in the University of Minnesota is even more liberal than at Yale...
...elective system has also entered into the schools. The high schools of all the great western cities have adopted a system of election of courses, although not of particular studies. The grammar schools of the West have a wider range of study than those of the East. This elective system which has been so rapidly developed is one of Harvard's gifts to the West...
...substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years it has got a firm hold on the institutions of the West...
Harvard's third gift to the West is the system of individual instruction. This was first introduced by Louis Agassiz in the form of natural science laboratory. The laboratory system spread through Harvard and even to the schools. In the University this individualization has taken the form of conferences and seminaries. In nearly all of the western schools the laboratory system has been to a great extent adopted. Individualization is bound to produce good results; for what both the individual and the community need is the development to the utmost of each man's capacity...