Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...faculty of Yale College has voted that honor courses be established, beginning September, 1915. The purpose of these courses will be to provide the serious student with a larger opportunity for work in his chosen field; and in doing so, to bring him in closer personal contact with his instructors. But it is believed that the courses will benefit not only the men who elect them, but also the college itself. Yale as other colleges, renders her best service to the country in sending out highly trained men; accordingly the more thorough the training Yale undergraduates receive, the more effective...
...last half of the Senior year of a college class should be replete with devices to bring the members of the class into closer contact with one another, and hence, to broaden the field of the classmen's personal aquaintance. The trend of the day at Harvard is to emphasize more strongly than before the importance of group spirit--or to be more specific, class spirit. There are many who feel that 1915 has, on the whole, not been as active in promoting this spirit as it should have been, especially when one considers its large quota of university leaders...
...heard the concert by the Musical Clubs. Among these boys who are just making their choice of a college, the University was advertised legitimately and effectively. This feature of the trip will probably bring many new students from the Middle West, and will do much to bring Harvard into closer touch with the more distant schools...
...schools established by missionary agencies throughout the Orient and other parts of the world are beginning to have closer and closer contact with American institutions. Within the last decade several boards have begun the policy of making term-appointments to the educational staff of their colleges abroad; the general requirement of life service having been changed to a definite period of months, or one, two, or three years. The case of each candidate is considered on its own merits; and is acted on by the regular authorities. The plan of one and two year appointment has been approved by several...
...unify the college and the Sheffield Scientific School than to start in and raise an additional endowment and set up a "third college" with less study of mathematics and the classic languages. On the other hand, it is plain that he looks with some favor, at least, on a closer approximation to the English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that...