Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard for an undergraduate to appraise the present tutorial system; but it seems to me that the time has come to put greater emphasis on the general examinations and less emphasis on the course work. The way to do this, probably, is to cut down the required number of courses, especially during the Senior year, while also elaborating the general examinations and building up the tutorial staff. No doubt this is the trend...
...reasons for giving course work less emphasis are both mechanical and psychological. Mechanically, as steps toward the mastery of a field, courses seem desirable either as introductory surveys to a general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along...
...grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
While tutorial work may in general conduce to greater progress than attendance at lectures in such fields as history, philosophy, or even literature, the reverse is certainly true of many other departments of study. Lectures in the fine arts, laboratory work in the sciences, discussion groups in mathematics or economic theory can scarcely be supplanted by independent reading on the part of the student...
There are available at the Student Employment Office positions in sales, foreign trade, advertising, investment banking, actuarial work, and other lines, for which there have not been sufficient applicants. New openings have just been listed...