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...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...solution to the problem comes under two heads. The first of these is the long-run, permanent solution. Sometime in the near future, Harvard must institute detailed supervision of tutoring schools. These may still remain under private ownership and operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...
This solution is not idealistic. Approximations to it are now in existence at several large universities. But it is essentially long-run, and for the present, there must be definitive action which runs along a road headed toward this goal...
...frequently said that the chief hope of long-run social service work lies in education. Until recently Harvard's social service agency, Phillips Brooks House, made only limited use of this bit of knowledge. Last spring, however, several enterprising Freshmen began the formation of an "undergraduate faculty" whose purpose it was to tutor worthy, underprivileged graduates of high schools in Metropolitan Boston. Lately a system has been inaugurated to the effect that other worthy high school graduates can now be placed under student tutors. If this present increase in the P.B.H. "faculty" is any indication of the future of this...
When the "undergraduate faculty" plan was launched last spring, however, P.B.H. at long last started to apply a fundamental cure to a few of the "one-third of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed." With education as their weapon, the student tutors are striking eventually at the reasons for adult perversions. The long-run results of this new program do not bear fruit as yet. But the immediate consequences are equally important. Tutor no less than tutee will benefit from such contacts; it is the "faculty" as well as the pupils who receive the education...