Word: directing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Social Service Committee when I reached the college in September. We are now doing quite a bit of volunteer work, especially in benevolence and teaching. Next week we are opening a boys' club in the nearest village, Roumelie Missar. It will be a unique organization, under the direct control of our Social Service Committee, but utilizing a great many Robert College students for volunteer service...
That a President of the United States should harshly dismiss his Secretary of State on the grounds of usurpation of executive power, because that Secretary called informal cabinet meetings during the President's incapacity, seems unthinkable. The government must function, and if the President is unable to direct its work the cabinet--those men whom the President himself has chosen as his official advisors--has not only the right but the duty to meet for discussion and interchange of ideas on pressing governmental affairs...
Harvard has already done much to make the classroom have a more direct bearing on life. The tutorial system and the general examinations are an evidence of what the faculty is trying to accomplish in this direction. There are some courses now which do arouse discussion and thought. But much remains to be done. Every effort should be made to have a more personal discussion and relationship between instructor and student. And in lectures the subject must be shown in its bearing on modern-day problems. But the chief burden now lies with the undergraduates themselves. Unless studies become...
...Harvard Bureau of Vocational Guidance seems to think the foreman is the greatest factor in the winning of industrial success. He is the man who comes in direct contact with both laborers and managers. He it is who "must keep the workers in good humor, settle the minor differences that arise, guard the health of his men, and stand ready to give his assistance in case of accidents." He must be a teacher and something of a sociologist as well. A foreman has been aptly described as the "top-sergeant of business...
...contact with men--the students. And yet the importance of his job tends to be minimized. What a man learns in the section-meeting makes, in a great many cases, a far more lasting impression on his mind than the lectures. The gathering is more informal; the questions are direct. Instead of being told, the student has to tell, and to do this he cannot help but think. If Seniors will look back upon their careers at college, they will realize that in the class room, not the lecture hall, their minds were widest awake. Universities and colleges complain bitterly...