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...stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense of glamor in stories with a Harvard background, as Fitzgerald has used the background of his university, have failed completely; why Harvard, to the average mind; never suggests the nebulous, romantic ideal of college life...
...Eaton describes the tutorial and lecture systems as mutually interdependent, and would deplore the weakening of either. The pure lecture program gives the student only one form of expression for his ideas,--the written paper. The tutor cannot cover all the detail incidental to a full college course. The ideal solution is a combination of the two in which both written and verbal discussion of his field are available to the student...
That the plan of Max Mason, president of the University of Chicago, for an "ideal college," in which examinations and credits would be abolished, is typical of the present tendency among American colleges to throw more responsibility upon the students, was the opinion expressed by W. E. Clark '03, visiting professor from the University of Chicago. President Mason's plans would make opportunity, rather than compulsion, the keynote of educational institutions, and would do away with examinations, the present stereotyped method of obtaining credits, and all routine except that which is self-imposed...
...undergraduate neglect. Its sponsors and members have gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly is an old and dignified custom. It is an accomplishment requiring both courage and skill, and an occupation worthy of the highest intellectual and social orders...
...these principles to certain cases calls on a minister to interpret what is irremediable willful desertion and what is injustice to an innocent person who has been divorced for Scriptural reasons-interpretations not always easy to make, having regard both to his duty to maintain Christ's ideal of marriage and to show Christian sympathy with those who have been the victim of tragic wrong...