Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly well be termed an educational dream. It is, however, because Engineering School students are Harvard undergraduates as much as the men in the College that their inclusion in the House Plan is not only justifiable but entirely logical. If not bound together with their academic brothers through the classroom, they are the more mutually interested in each other through common participation in athletics and extra-curricular activities. The friendships formed in these phases of university life will be furthered now that all undergraduates are together in House Plan...
Harvard men have invented a new gambling game akin to stock market lotteries, baseball pools and clearance house totals, a CRIMSON reporter has discovered. Not only that but they have succeeded in combining business with pleasure, and pursue the Goddess of Chance in the classroom...
...credit, with the result that he might not get through the required list before senior year. Henceforth students will take but five courses a year, will be able to complete their requirements by the end of sophomore year. Other innovations: abolition of midyear examinations, substitution of three reading periods (classroom holiday to permit research and study) and a comprehensive final examination in every course; abolition of half-year courses; requirement that four out of five courses must be passed every year, that during the four years six courses out of the total 20 must be passed with a grade...
...majority of the Freshmen will doubtlessly stay where they belong,--in the classroom, in the small conference groups, and in the lecture halls. They will do the outside work assigned to them, but little more. In most cases it will be wise to assign but little outside work. The men of greater ability and avidity however, will be less likely to loaf, for there will be something more to do after the easy B's and easier C's are collected...
...scientist's holiday is to come out of his classroom or laboratory and discuss his specialty before a meeting of his peers. Groups of scientists met last week all through the land to discuss another year's developments in all manner of sciences. Astronomers pondered huge things at New Haven. Bacteriologists gossiped about small things in Cambridge. Geologists at Toronto heard greetings from President Hoover, himself a charter member of the Geological Society of America. Rheologists told at Easton, Pa. what news they knew of flowing liquids. Psychologists chatted in Iowa City of habits, instincts. In Manhattan psychiatrists...