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...size of the College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted to his individual needs. Enter the machinery as a substitute...
...personal element on the problem resolves itself into two main considerations. There must be more tutors and there must be better tutors. In order that the system may work to its best advantage no tutor should have more than five or six students assigned to him. He should be able to become not only acquainted but intimate with them all. He should meet them not once in two weeks but two or three times a week, and at least once a week he should meet all his students together for informal and sociable discussion. It is obvious that with larger...
...though; a wide dissemination of the facts of evolution would remove the fear of held tire in the popular mind, than perhaps I should agree with Mr. Bryan. It must be admitted that evolution will not teach a man to be good, whereas the element of fear in religion may intimidate him into behaving him self...
...their more fortunate fellows, the infant tutorial system brought new hope. The promise of a new link between the students and the faculty was welcomed with enthusiasm, and though there is still much to be done to perfect the plan, in the main it is justifying itself. The personal element which Dr. Demos emphasizes as so important is beginning to creep back into Harvard life...
There is admittedly a considerable element of uncertainty in any such rating, but President Hughes declares that it fills a long felt want and that the results have a high degree of value. It may be, he declares, that the rating is inaccurate, but at least it is a step towards calculating the relative efficiency of the universities in the United States...