Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit, and no college spirit. The professors read technical, scientific lectures and are indifferent as to whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning. There is an absolute lack of sport enthusiasm and the old patriotism is regarded by the limited classes which still hold the feeling as a necessary...
...University. And in the arguing of each question, the preliminary set speeches have always been short to conform with their function of merely directing subsequent discussion. The Oxford ideal of a free and dignified student forum to develop speakers of high calibre while providing also an extra curricular activity of some charm and glamour seems to have been consistently sought...
...News competition will offer the Freshman class its greatest opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity and resourcefulness to be found in extra-curricular activities. Newsgetting in all its divisions affords the candidate experience in interviewing notables in and out of the University, in writing a journalistic style, and in learning the machinery of Harvard, in a manner not to be equalled elsewhere. Each candidate is a reporter, pursuing the same methods employed upon metropolitan dailies. Credit is given for each story written with extra credit for scoops, and a bonus for high scholarship...
Wisconsin is at the moment planning a reorganization of its curricular and advisory systems. Dr. Meiklejohn will take his chair next month. He is sure to be asked to insert his liberal finger into the pedagogical pie, at least to the extent of describing changes he recommended and sought to introduce at Amherst, changes which were thought too revolutionary by the Amherst trustees and which necessitated his resignation as Amherst president in 1923. His incumbency at Wisconsin again postpones the advent of the "ideal college" which Dr. Meiklejohn hopes some day to found (TIME...
...pleasant tradition of the pre-holiday season--the Faculty Teas. This afternoon and on successive Friday afternoons in the Living Room of the Union the members of the various departments and their wives will meet whatever students appreciate this opportunity to mingle with their faculty in an informal, extra-curricular manner. A chance is thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this way--for even the most formidable of faculty lions is lamblike at ten. To the meek, the bold...