Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moses Williams '68. "While there was something of a purely literary spirit among the early Advocate editors," wrote one of them, "yet it was overshadowed by the combative zeal against the ancient Faculty and the ancient abuses, and by the enthusiastic desire to help bring about a better day for Harvard...
...seven newly elected editors of the board will have little work to complete its successful publication. From all appearances the Red Book this year should be at least as good as last year's volume. This is due to the fact that all departments of the book have been better organized than in former years, and should thus produce a better piece of work. Every member of the present board has had to do considerable work. Among the noteworthy features of the book is the work of the Art Department. The book-plate to be used was drawn...
...course of instruction of one year, divided between international law as a system of law and the application of its principles in international relations is regarded as a minimum. Experience seems to show that better results are obtained by consecutive rather than by concurrent study of these subjects when only one year is possible, i.e., a half year of international law followed by a half year of international relations, rather than a division of the periods in each week between these subjects. Where it is not at present possible to give adequate courses in international law and international relations, more...
...employed an additional assistant in Economics 2, and has more than doubled the amount of help and supervision that the students have received in the preparation of their theses. The results already appear to justify the expenditure of the additional money, and it is hoped that a new and better standard of thesis work is being established in this course. About two years ago the Department of Economics invited the Department of Education to undertake a survey of its work. This study has been carried on as fast as the resources of the Department of Education would permit...
...increased to 33; by 1912, to 38; and by 1914, to 48. During the present year the enrolment of graduate students has risen to 53. As already pointed out, the growth in the number of graduate students has enabled the Department to secure better assistants and instructors in the undergraduate courses than ever before. But it has also increased materially the work of the professors who have to do with graduate students. Such work is largely of an individual character, and the amount of time that the older members of the staff have devoted to it in recent years...