Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Judges at finish--M. D. Griswold 1L., J. F. Doyle '07, P. C. Lockwood '07, B. L. Young...
...resident appointments: Edward William Hooper Fellowships--H. L. Gray 5G.; Parker Fellowships--L. A. Howland 3G., D. P. Lockwood 4G., K. Young 4G.; Rogers Fellowships--A. N. Holcombe 1G., A. W. Locke '05; John Harvard Fellowship--H. N. MacCracken 3G.; Nelson Robinson, Jr., Fellowship--A. E. Hoyle 2G.; Harris Fellowship--J. H. Breek '07; James Walker Fellowship--C. S. Berry 3G.; Ozias Goodwin Memorial Fellowship--W. E. Lunt 3G.; Henry Bromfield Rogers Memorial Fellowship--H. M. Kallen 2G.; John Thorton Kirkland Fellowship--P. A. Martin...
...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...
...University, is either necessary or advisable. There is much to be said in favor of personal contact between men who have just finished their undergraduate life at Harvard and men who are newcomers. But the benefit from such a connection depends entirely upon the personality of the young instructor, and this we believe is the key to the whole situation. There are men at Harvard, whose undergraduate life is just completed, and whose work and personality qualify them for positions as instructors, and if the men responsible for the appointments are far-sighted enough to see that standing...
...editorial on "The Young Instructor" is the one jarring note in the number. Conched in extravagant language and containing many obvious exaggerations, it is intended, ostensibly, as a protest against some aspects of the system of employing a large number of young instructors and assistants to correct themes and to supplement the instruction given by lectures in large courses. The protest is directed especially against the employment for such work of men just graduated from college, who, it is agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely...