Word: collegee
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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At the end of the first day of Yale's Red Cross Roll Call 31 1-2 per cent, of the college had responded to the plea for membership. The 412 men who had contributed were divided among the four classes as follows: 1920, 71; 1921, 96; 1922, 130; 1923...
The drift away from the individual course as a unit in education appears in a recent action of the governing body of the Harvard Medical School. In the future, general examinations of a scope much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The...
In the heyday of the elective system it was possible for a man to graduate from college with a smattering of sixteen subjects and a grounding in none. More recently, without abandoning the ideal of a general education, we have swung toward concentration in a single subject and related subjects...
Emphasis on a field of study (as opposed to a course) tends to an individual system of education, with less assigned work and more voluntary work. Students at Harvard have long felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system of instruction. Whether the cause is a too definite...
The college professors also will vote on a proposition to unite in one organization, to be called the National Federation of Intellectuals, which will include all technical men, journalists, school teachers, professors, authors, doctors and lawyers. The proposed organization would comprise six different branches and professions.