Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ultimate question is of granting the college student a maximum of intellectual freedom. The undergraduate is well-poised: he will not be unbalanced by reading about a few doubtful subjects always in common talk. And openness of approach to written knowledge of esoteric subjects will go far to dissipate the halo of naughtiness which clings about the prurient taboo...
...approach that season of the year when it has been the custom for the American people to give thanks for the good fortune which the bounty of Providence, through the generosity of nature, has visited upon them. It is altogether a good custom. "Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, hereby proclaim and fix Thursday, the 27th day of November, as a day for national thanksgiving . . . "-a proclamation made at the City of Washington "in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four and of the independence of the United States...
Personal conferences had seemed the most effective approach to the student because of variations within a given profession and the widely differing problems of the individuals. In following this plan 60 students have had special conferences with the secretary of the committee, over 100 conferences have been held with alumni, of whom the committee has a large list in various occupations who are willing to confer with the students. In addition the committee has been instrumental in arranging about 100 conferences of students with prospective employers. This willingness of graduates and others to talk over personal problems of this sort...
...committee for the use of students seeking to make a decision on their life work, and in the CRIMSON six articles on the various professions were published. These articles considered choosing a location, the necessary technical training, remuneration, desirable attitudes for beginners, essential personal qualifications, methods of approach to employers, and other topics necessary to a complete understanding of the subject being discussed...
What efforts are these schools making to instill in the minds of their students such an interest in their courses as will enable them to divide their energies at college in such a way that studies will more nearly approach the importance in their minds which the college is insisting they shall occupy? In my opinion they are making just about the same efforts along these lines as they were fifteen or twenty years ago, seeming unaware of, or indifferent to, the advances made in the art of teaching, advances which are every year gaining ground in hundreds of other...