Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common idea of colleges as "hot-beds of Bolshevism" indicates a popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...
...will open his general course in Russian History after mid-year's, as a half-course dealing especially with more recent events in Russia, comes as welcome evidence that Harvard is keeping abreast of the times in the matter of curriculum. While, in general, it is not the proper function of a university to deal with questions upon which much evidence is outstanding, nothing stimulates undergraduate interest so much or shows in such a concrete way the bearing of the classroom on life as a stimulating discussion and analysis of contemporaneous events...
...after life his ideas, subjected to all kinds of tests at college, crystalize in new convictions. It is the function of college to make him suspend judgment until he has a wider range of material on which to build more mature decisions. The man who goes through his undergraduate training with an "idee fixe," intolerant of others' opinions; the man who is sure of himself and his ideas, is missing the true point of higher education...
...college, and that he is concerned in maintaining its standing on a high scale as regards its publications, athletics, administration, music, and dramatics. Without honor men the college could not acquire a scholastic standing; on the other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...
...Abbott thinks that the schoolboy should early specialize along one line of education and not acquire a mere smattering of many subjects. He also emphatically recommends the placing of athletics on an absolutely equal basis with scholarship. Admitting that he is a "radical in education," he says the function of a school is to form character, and the highest aim of every preparatory school is to turn out a man who can stand four-square against every wind that blows. Therefore he regards the attainment of scholarship as only one great means of developing character...