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Radical additions to the athletic equipment of the University, a more sympathetic understanding of the coaching problem, and a suggestion of the appointment of a Director of Athletics to have complete personal contact with the daily athletic activity of the University, are the most important features of the report of the Committee of the Alumni on Athletics, which will be read before the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs to be held in Baltimore on May 21, 23 and 25. The report, together with those of all the other committees of the alumni on University affairs...
...large college a more personal contact is desired between instructor and instructed than exists generally in the course system...
...trend in education which our plan expresses receives its vitality from the growing realization of several principles. First, in a large college a more personal contact is desired between instructor and instructed than exists generally in the course system. Secondly, this latter system has the faults of laying too much emphasis on the accumulation of facts, when the correlation and application of those facts would form a more valuable training, and of breeding the idea that for entrance into the "society of educated men" the securing of stipulated grades in a certain number of courses is all that is necessary...
...course system. The two do not seem to us "antithetical and mutually repugnant," as they have been characterized elsewhere. It is our hope to see them work together, at least in a temporary state. But the scope of tutorial activity should be widened. Demand for the kind of personal contact described above and for greater independence for the student call loudly for a step forward, for another stage in the experiment...
...glad," declared Professor Okada, "to be able to see at last Harvard which I have known indirectly many, many years. Where I live, there is contact with your University in many ways. Harvard is known all over Japan, more than any other foreign place of learning. We use your books, your ideas, your graduates, in our University life, and each year we urge as many young men to come to Harvard is possible. When our boys come back, they come back men, with great knowledge and experience for teaching...