Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to allow the reading period to extend for its usual two and a half weeks and to allow the mid-year examination period its alloted time, the second semester will not begin until February...
Such a plan would be quite capable of further development. Inasmuch as many men, particularly those who take courses in Music, have phonographs of their own, it might well be possible to allow them to take records from the files overnight, in much the same manner as library books are handled...
...most attractive features of the Norton Chair is the fact that although theoretically dedicated to poetry, the terms of the bequest are sufficiently broad to allow it to be held by an exponent of poetical expression in such allied fields as Music or Fine Arts as well as in Literature. In this way the Norton lectures are considerably widened in appeal and the opportunity for cultural refinement to be found in their consistently high caliber is made attractive to a wider range of students than those concentrating exclusively in the field of literature...
...projected reform which is as yet only tentative, in theory would seem to be a progressive and worth-while move which would allow students to proceed in their education at a rate more in accord with individual mental capacities than is possible under present conditions. A difficulty present itself, however, in finding a more accurate gauge of qualities, as intangible as a student's "mental capacity", and "reaction to the university's opportunities" than exists under the credit system which President Hutchins wishes to supplant. Such a gauge is necessarily the foundation on which the new system must rest...
...printed word that brings in the past to serve the present, it is the generation of retired scholars who can best help in perpetuating that present. The provision for eight consultants with their time at the disposal of the student will allow the workers for a Ph.D. degree to consider the past in the light of present-day experience. The idea of Washington as a place of higher reference scholastically as well as politically, as a new educational focus point, suggests that education may join the ranks of other interests becoming centralized in the national capitol...