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Another interesting innovation is about to be tested in the field of education. Harvard university, if is believed, is considering a plan whereby classes and lectures will be suspended for a period of several weeks before mid-year and final examinations. Such a move is designed primarily to give students additional time for personal investigation as well as more chance to prepare for finals...
...attempting to prepare for four or five finals within several days. It is conceivable that this new plan might decrease the number of students whose scholastic work is deficient--if supported by the whole-hearted co-operation of the students. For therein lurks the danger of the Harvard move...
...college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result in its failure. At any rate the experiment, if carried out by Harvard university, will be watched with interest by the other colleges of the country and may result in a general move for more initiative on the part of the students and less paternalism on the part of the faculties. --The Michigan Daily...
Another new move in education comes from Harvard, an institution which has had a reputation for progressiveness since President Eliot assumed office in the late sixties. This progressive spirit has been expressed in the establishment of extensive graduate schools, such as the business school, established early in the history of education for commerce's and administration, in the gradual granting of more and more freedom to the undergraduate, which has resulted in the "Dean's List" permitting unlimited cutting of classes to the scholastically successful, and in the study of educational methods made ten or twelve years ago when...
Said Senator Schall on hearing of the investigation: "It is a well laid political move, backed by the same big moneyed man, E. W. Backus of Minneapolis." Mr. Backus is a paper-lumber-bankerman...