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Modern specialized education must not neglect the "human qualities" of students in consideration of their intellectual abilities, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and Master of Eliot House, said Saturday.
Finley was one of three speakers at a luncheon forum in New York sponsored by the Radcliffe Club of New York. The subject of the forum was "The Education of Women in England and the United States."
Other speakers were Helen Maud Cam, Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of History, and Allen W. Dulles. Radcliffe President Jordan was moderator.
"Educational Maelstrom"
The increased enrollment in colleges today creates competition among students for the attraction of the teachers, Finley said. Few students, he added, are able to fight their way out of this "competitive maelstrom."
Answering a contention by Dulles that women lack political education, Professor Cam advised him to study history to see the part women have played in the past. But Miss Cam, the first woman ever to hold a full professorship at Harvard, lamented the "docility of the average woman."
Dulles, admitting that his information came from a daughter who had graduated from Radcliffe, claimed that today's mass-production education failed to prepare women to be politically active.
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