Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stand on an equal footing with his fellows, in which he can express his opinion outside academic halls on any subject of pure economics or the application of economic theory and in which he can obtain the information and instruction which he has failed to receive in the classroom. If it is true that our wits are sharpened and our faculties aroused by contact with our fellows, then it is needles to say that such an undergraduate society, filling the part of a forum for discussion and debate, would prove of no small value in raising the standard of scholarship...
...come into close and personal contact with the professors of the University and distinguished men who are actively engaged in the solution of social and economic problems. Then, too, the free and informal discussion bound to prevail serves better than anything else to clarify thoughts stimulated in the classroom, and the chance to discuss these views with one's fellows and teachers surely is invaluable...
...governing board seems to have overlooked an opportunity for improvement, and that is in regard to lectures by prominent members of the Faculty. A desire which Harvard students have continually expressed and scarcely ever had gratified has been to come into closer touch with various prominent professors outside the classroom. Here is an opportunity to fulfill that desire by means of Union lectures, and to bring students into more intimate relations with the great teachers whose personalities are so impressive and talks so inspiring...
...degenerates who are willing to cheat under the present system would have to bow to the opinion of the men with whom they are working--in most cases they would be willing to do so if it occurred to them as a matter of honor--and the undergraduate classroom morality would be raised accordingly. Such a public opinion as would be raised against cheating in examinations by the introduction of the honor system would, we believe, extend at the same time to the matter of theses: It would not be a negative feeling against dishonesty, but a righteous indignation which...
Since, however, it is necessary to have some method of testing prescribed reading, if it is to be anything more than a farce, it seems desirable that the system of conferences and classroom papers already extensively in use should be further extended, and should, so far as possible, supplant this mechanical writing of unprofitable reports. A paper written in class has at least the merit of demanding some general knowledge of the subject, and an oral conference serves both to clarify and fix the ideas of the student, and to assure the instructor that the student is taking an intelligent...