Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two years of college. He declared that there should be a series of compulsory general courses given in the opening, years of college whose purpose should be primarily to arouse and stimulate intellectual curiosity in the student. At the end of the Sophomore year general examinations should cover the field of these courses, and success in these should admit the student to the higher courses, where in the last two college years there should be specialization, and greater academic freedom. A modified tutorial system would provide the best means of effecting this condition of affairs, he said...
...writing to express the hope that TIME will continue to use as cover-frontis-pieces those very clever and vigorous portrait sketches by the man whose name I cannot decipher. I have started a scrapbook, containing these drawings and their corresponding articles, and hope to make up a group of such double character-sketches. The latest one, of Dr. Coffin, I think is particularly fine, and it was that one that gave me the idea of making a collection...
...were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini at all, it seemed, until the concluding love duet and finale which was not his but his friend's, Franco Alfano's, who wrote it after his death...
...committee, headed by Professor M. W. Jernegan of Chicago University, is sending questionnaires to doctors of philosophy throughout the country requesting a "frank and full opinion" as to the reason for the failure of higher degree holders to become scholars. The ten queries contained in the questionnaire cover the chief factors, economic, scholastic, and moral, which may be contributory to a situation of keen concern to leaders in historical research. The results of this inquisitory campaign will be contained in a report submitted to the Historical Association about December...
...Would you be likely to produce a particular piece of work if you were assured of a definite grant sufficient to cover part of the expenses of research and publication...