Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanley C. Salmen '36, secretary to the Board of Freshman Advisers and former president of the CRIMSON, has been appointed General Secretary of the School and College Group of the Community Fund Campaign and Assistant Chairman of the Harvard Unit, it was announced last night by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Chairman of the General and Harvard groups...
...these battle cries are not loud enough. A vital starting point for attack upon secondary schools are the college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could...
President Conant's committee, the School of Education, and the Dean's Office can do much to resurrect the secondary schools. Already the English college board has been slapped by the stiffening of requirements for English A. They might encourage the merging of the Educational Records Bureau, whose examining methods are notably progressive, with the conservative, horribly inadequate College Entrance Examination Board. When conferring with, headmasters about candidates for admission they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds...
...resolution of the Administrative Board asking President Conant to appoint this committee follows...
...VOTED that the Administrative Board for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching request the President to appoint a committee representing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education to consider and report upon the need of American secondary schools...