Word: scholasticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In order that the average Freshman may meet the higher standards of college courses, he must be stimulated by first rate teachers, and guided by able and interested advisors. Unfortunately the section-men in the Freshman courses are young graduate students, who have had little or no experience in the...
The primary reason for the poor teaching, except in the elementary language courses, is that the younger men are too burdened with their own compulsory research--compulsory, because research and its consequent scholastic output are almost the sole bases of promotion today at Harvard. The teaching ability that a man...
Boylston professors have, with few exceptions, lived far beyond their allotted three-score years and ten. This should leave Professor Hillyer at least thirty years of active teaching and perhaps an additional decade or two in retirement. The extent to which he has developed and grown in the last twenty...
If the choice is fortunate, an immeasurable service will be rendered, and probably to great numbers of students. Freshmen, who have that famous "transition from school to college" to make, may be expected to be the chief beneficiaries. It would be a grave mistake for them, however, to regard this...
What provisions, then, should be taken to care for the Freshmen who not reach the Elysian fields of the Houses? It seems eminently clear, and the Student Council report has pointed out, that n one should be denied at least one year in the Houses, no matter where he comes...