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...Greater flexibility must be introduced to encourage the exceptional man. The dean's list and the provision that candidates for distinction may drop a course in their Senior year are steps in the right direction, but they are not enough. Seniors continue to answer the class questionnaire with the complaint that they need more time to think...
While the Phi Beta Kappa nine has been studying the game, individually, without benefit of practice, the tutors have already played one game, that against a team of graduate students in which they were beaten. The tutors' only complaint after the game was an expression of regret that their opponents were not undergraduates concentrating in History, Government and Economics...
...chief complaint, however, against Dr. Brinton is that he perpetuates, although in quotation marks, the myth of the "Oxford tutorial system". Until I reached this country I was not aware that I was a cog of any such imposing machine. I had imagined hitherto that I was living and working in an academic and therefore respectable anarchy, in which tutors and pupils were at the mercy of each others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism...
...whole matter simmers down to a question of taste. Doubtless the Representative from Florida has been carried away by his feeling for aesthetic nicety, or else he might have regarded the abuse more philosophically. But, hasty or not, he has probed a very common complaint...
...have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden of the complaint is the submissiveness of the creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor's theses, these three papers...