Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inglis lecture on Secondary Education Wednesday night, stated that "the size of classes has no relation to the effectiveness of teaching." He supported this statement by citing a survey recently completed at the University of Minnesota. Such a view must be based on the belief that the chief function of education is to provide students with a complement of facts, for it is difficult to conceive a satisfactory scientific method of testing its less tangible results...
Another significant consequence of the failure to recognize tutoring as a valuable and necessary function of the College deserves mention. It has to do with current ideas and attitudes. The younger members of the Faculty, who in all likelihood were full-time tutors in their early career, tend as they move up the academic ladder to show a marked preference for lecturing over tutoring. It is commonly believed that he who gives a course has won a badge of distinction. The traditional idea often persists that a professor is one who lectures, carries on research, and writes books...
...tutoring is a legitimate function of the College, it deserves to be recognized as such. The tutorial system will remain a constantly shifting experiment as long as its backbone is made up of steadily changing and in experienced men. If good tutors are valuable assets to the College, Harvard must see to its that they are retained. Tutors themselves testify that research is the best antidote to the wear and tear of tutorial work, and that the man who is not pursuing independent scholarly interest's of his own is not likely to remain a good tutor for long...
...will shape its effectiveness as an influential student organization. If it should fall to adopt a decisive course, student government at Harvard may suffer a telling blew. To phrase the question simply, inaction will destroy its prestige while a courageous course will demonstrate that it is fulfilling its normal function...
Dean Donham in his annual report to the President laid great stress upon the function of the Business School as a training ground for government administrators. Scoring the lack of equipment among officials today and the over-specialization in individual fields, he stated that the Business School "must become a School of public as well as private business...