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...costly but valuable tutorial system, which will probably go down in Harvard history as the most important contribution to American education made by President Lowell's administration. But nobody knows how long it will be necessary to add to teachers' salaries or how long it will take to develop the tutorial system...
...curriculum of the "pass" man is designed to give him a respectable quantum of liberal information, that of the "honors" man, to develop his maximum power of original and constructive thinking. While both classes of students come in contact with and are guided by the tutors, the "honors" men meet their tutors much more frequently and intimately than the "pass...
...which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly prepared for this point of view from an official whose function it is supposed to be to develop winning teams at whatever cost, but as Mr. Bingham explained his philosophy surprise turned to admiration for it was recognized that here was a man destined to dignify college sports and to assure them a standing in the curriculum which they have been struggling for generations to attain...
...instruction and would subordinate it to other methods. Our procedure has been too much that of attempting to give the students the results of work done by their teachers. As against this our teaching must be based upon work done by the student himself. We must attempt to develop in him intellectual independence and initiative. . . He must learn to think and to know what to think about. To this end we would substitute for lectures and instruction a scheme based upon reading, conference and discussion. . . . . We would then supplement the student's own work by conference with teachers who would...
...fact that the season is only a week old and the men have had very little chance to develop yet, no definite decisions were made on the strength of the first track trails which were held Saturday afternoon...