Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard calendar, cutting away six weeks of formal lectures and recitations, surely gives liberal allowance to student opinion on this score. But it goes further. It takes very effectively into account the immense amount of work which has been done in recent years in the investigation of all those conditions which may be shown, by scientific test and inquiry, to be the most favorable conditions under which human beings can work and study and enlarge their capacities. The novel departure at Harvard pays real deference, in short, to the modern science of pedagogics. The declaration that "the student must have...
...that some, students who know not how to use their new liberty will abuse the "free periods," and will be harmed by them. But the men who are worthy this new trust--and their number will increase as time goes on--will turn it to most significant and availing account. Boston Transcript, March...
...have long felt that American students attend too many lectures and classes and do too little work on their own account. The new Harvard plan seems to me a courageous effort to improve the curriculum in this respect. Its success will depend entirely upon the undergraduates...
...inquiring Crimson reporter was not on hand for an account of Mr. Clark's personal troubles. It was the building, now nearing completion which had lured him forth...
...Napoleon had two known illegitimate children. One, Leon, became the no-account husband of a U. S. cook; the other, Count Walewski, was a distinguished Minister of State in the Second Empire...