Word: branches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current annual report, President Meiklejohn of Amherst College makes some interesting suggestions as to the desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with...
...recent mass meeting called by the Massachusetts Branch of the Association opposed to National Prohibition in the Mechanics Building, the following statements were made by Mr. C. A. Windle of Chicago, the most plausible speaker of the evening...
...ever received any pecuniary reward or its equivalent by reason of his connection with athletics--whether for playing, coaching or acting as teacher in any branch of sport or engaging therein in any capacity--shall represent his University in any athletic team or crew, except that any University Committee on Eligibility may, subject to the approval of the Committee of the Three Chairmen, permit such participation in intercollegiate athletics by men who might technically be debarred under the letter of the rule, but, who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility have not commercialized their athletic ability...
Almost every one of the 572 contestants in the Intercollegiate Championships has been in some branch of the service, and will consequently be eligible to represent this country in the army games. A large number of star athletes have already singed up for the allied meet, including several intercollegiate champions who are going out for records on Friday and Saturday...
...labor union for teachers is "novum organum" if ever the sun shone on anything new. We read that the teachers are rushing to affiliate themselves with this branch of the Federation of Labor; that "teachers in and about Boston, including professors at Harvard University", organized the "Greater Boston Federation of Teachers" whose purpose is to fix a minimum salary and procure adequate retirement laws...