Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth system apparently goes this full length, without adopting the tutorial system itself, but it does so at the expense of certain advantages which have not been sacrificed at Harvard. It leaves the curriculum of the average student unchanged, whereas the University provides tutorial instruction for everyone, and it proposes to instruct its honor students partly in small sections, a method evidently inferior, although less expensive, to the individual conference with a tutor...
Fielding Yost, the Michigan mentor, has arrived in Princeton to help in the practice for a week. Together with Harvey Emery, former Princeton tackle, he will instruct the men daily in his Michigan tactics. After Yost's stay is up Coach Roper and Keene Fitzpatrick, the Tiger trainer, will go to Ann Arbor and supervise the work of the conference team...
...extension business schools, correspondence schools, all waiting to snatch up the young man and turn him into a rythmic accounting machine, and then feed him as so much raw material into the steel factories, the aluminum factories, the 'widget factories', and the stool chairs of commercial life. Fond Fathers instruct sons to eat and be merry in their gay college years for there is serious business ahead...
...vagueness and uncertainty as to the purpose of the fund attributed to a few of the collectors is perhaps more truly due to their unwillingness to enter into the spirit of the thing than to any lack of proper instruction. In a group of over one hundred collectors it is possible that a few may not do their best, and this is probably proven by the fact that 22 of the original group of collectors assigned did not even reply to the request of the committee. Every possible effort was made to instruct the collectors individually on the opening night...
Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...