Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Admitting that a Freshman should not concentrate in studies to which he is averse, we may ask, "In what should he specialize?" Most people will say, "You'd better take as a backbone of your study that which you are going to make your life work." To this belief, however, President Lowell is a heretic. One of the objects of a course is to get certain points of view here which are not obtained in later life. If a man is going to be a physician, it is good for him to get a taste of literature in College. Whether...
...dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice of Electives," and will explain to the its purpose and possibilities. No one is better qualified than President Lowell to tell the men of 1916 how to employ to greatest advantage the educational opportunity now offered them, and no time is more suited than the present for the Freshmen to hear this talk and to profit by it in preparing their plan of study...
This is the only business meeting of the year. It is held in conjunction with the annual Association dinner in order that undergraduates attending the dinner may have a better idea of the varied activities of Brooks House, inasmuch as the annual reports to be heard include all the constituent societies in the Association...
...Carver's appointment as director of the "Rural Organization Service," a new division of the Department of Agriculture, is an advance in his career as an economist. He has studied carefully and made extensive investigations into rural conditions, both here and abroad, with especial view to the scientific betterment of agricultural methods; and no one is better fitted to take up the difficult task of organizing our rural communities along the lines of greatest economic efficiency. Professor Carver will now have ample opportunity to apply and test the theories which he has formulated as a result of his studies...
...result of an investigation of the matter of better fire protection in the Yard buildings, the Executive Committee reported that Mr. Burke, the inspector of Grounds and Buildings, had already started to work on a system that shall operate both automatically and by hand, and expects to have it in running order by next fall. The Executive Committee also announced the approval of W. L. Ustick '13 as chairman of the Committee on Organizations...