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...will note that I have not said that the tutorial system fails to perform this function in all cases; I have said simply "in many cases." I am sure that the function of correlation and systematization is admirably performed by those tutors (unfortunately a minority) who have been studying in a field long enough, to enable him to perform that function. In other words, the success of the tutorial system in performing the function in question depends on the maturity of the tutor. I do not have to tell you that most of the tutorial work in Harvard College...
...still other fields covered by related Departments. Occasionally his research interests may lead him to do this, but for the most part his research work imposes intensive reading in a relatively narrow field. How can we expect a group of specialized research workers to perform for others the function of correlating and systematizing knowledge when they have been unable, and largely owing to the conditions under which they work, to perform that function for themselves...
Finally, it must be remembered that a valuable function of the Classics is the formation of a good English style; a man who can think and write accurately in Greek will not be sloppy in his English. For at the base of good style lies sure knowledge of the meaning and place of words, a study usually omitted in English...
...shown in the report that the House libraries and the library in the Freshman Union, which are finally catalogued and in reliable working order, are coming to be intensively used and since the forced closing of the College Library are fulfilling an important function in the University...
After the panic of 1907 the late great Edward Henry Harriman picked L. F. Loree for president of another tottering road, the Delaware & Hudson. It was an 870-mi. line running from "nowhere [WilkesBarre] to nowhere [Montreal]." President Loree saw that its only paying function would be carrying hard coal. He segregated its coal properties, then its coal-carrying railroad, so that today D. & H. is a holding company. It was the coal properties that eventually enabled L. F. Loree to enter railroading's major league as a real power...