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...last section of the report contains a general criticism of Harvard teaching and points out the essential difference between the function of the college and that, of both the predatory school and the graduate school...
...What socially valuable function is performed by the hobo? (See EDUCATION...
...precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under the most virtuous of these organizations, however, is by no means a secret. And amateur athletics would make a noteworthy step back towards their true function, should they revolt against the tyrranical and often hypocritical paternalism which now surrounds them...
Professor Piper though that much of such criticism proceeded from an apparently prevalent misconception of the function of the university as differentiated from that of the vocational school...
...quality is her heterogeneity. The balance of elements must be maintained, but an untoward restriction of any given group would be as disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere more enervating than that of the college whose members approximate a single type. The function of the University is to produce gentlemen, in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...