Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is much sound and fury at Columbia this week as a plan to include a reading period before examinations is up before an administration board, and the students and faculty are hurling pro and con arguments at each other. The plan is in effect at Yale and Dartmouth, and the replies of the editors of dailies at those institutions to the Spectator's query concerning its success was answered in the affirmative...
Some members of the Columbia faculty were polled on the question. A split vote was the result. Generally, the science faculty saw little use for a reading period. An English instructor saw much advantage in the plan for students taking English courses. Most of the objecting faculty members thought the reading period would lead to procrastination of studies before this period and cramming during this period...
...Pennsylvania, we feel the plan should be adopted for the Wharton School and College, at least. To the objection that the period would cause procrastination and cramming, we point to its success at Yale and Dartmouth. The objecting faculty members at Columbia were drawing conclusions from observations of a small group of college men who can procrastinate and cram without help of a reading period. The Pennsylvanian...
Thus did the President of the United States receive the handclasp of solidarity from Fritz Thyssen and his Nazl blood-hounds. --Columbia Spectator...
...which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...