Word: morisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Representing the first volume of the Tercentennial History of Harvard University, edited by Professor S. E. Morison '08, copy for "The Development of the University, 1869-1929" went to the Harvard University Press yesterday...
Undergraduate activities, with the one exception of the musical clubs, are outside the scope of this volume and will be dealt with by Professor Morison in the history of the College which he is writing himself, and which will constitute volumes II-IV of the Tercentennial History...
...this morning's CRIMSON Professor Samuel E. Morison, of the History Department, describes the characteristic features of the college system at Oxford, laying particular emphasis on the differences between the situation there and current conditions at Harvard...
Professor Morison points to the disciplinary duties of the small college within Oxford as its most prominent function. Discipline is a word uncongenial to Harvard ears; surely no plan of subdivision here whatever might be its direction could be intended toward the extension of discipline. If discipline be taken to mean guidance as well as coercion, however, this assumption becomes much less sure. The new Harvard plan of House residence with its provision for constant and close contact between tutor and student can scarcely fall to produce the type of discipline which Professor Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford...
...kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...