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...properly applied, the tutorial system is a practical solution, a step toward the ideal...
There are, however, some very definite practical limitations to the attainment of this ideal. The secondary schools with their emphasis on compulsion are not sending to Harvard large quantities of men qualified to assume at the start the captaincy of their won intellection Time is required before there can be implanted in them a tradition of intellectual initiative...
There is a second objection to the ideal--the size of the College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted...
...necessity before Harvard today is the awakening of intellectual initiative through the minimizing of compulsion and the maximizing of stimulation, by a Faculty, familiar with the needs of individuals rather than the requirements of groups. If properly applied, the tutorial system is a practical solution, a step toward the ideal...
...South. Dozens of Southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. Was it Richard S. Whaley of South Carolina? At any rate, the ideal Southerner refused the chair...