Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...
...While an effort is being made by the University authorities to raise the standard of scholarship, no project seems to have been undertaken for improving the conditions under which the undergraduates do their work. The Reading Room in Gore Hall is the only place where a large part of the student body can obtain many of the books in which reading is required, and the necessary rules of the Library prevent borrowing the books most in demand. Under present conditions men are forced to do a great deal of reading in Gore Hall...
...that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which plan their programs of study without reference to Harvard. These conditions have given rise to the criticism that Harvard is losing its grip upon the high schools and to a plea that an effort be made to renew its hold. But has the University ever had any influence on the plan of study in such institutions? When it is seen that more than half the public high schools of Massachusetts have not sent to Harvard a single boy in ten years, it is clear...
...often said that such bodies propose only their own members for election. This year all possibility of such criticism is obviated by reducing the nominating committee to five men,--a small portion of the 22 officers who are to be chosen. The new arrangement has been made in an effort to fulfill public desire, and consequently deserves thorough support...
From the facts stated above, it becomes clear that a radical change in the system of conducting such courses is imperative. There are two alternatives open, one of which must be adopted. Either an effort should be made to secure more capable assistants, or else the professor should feel it his duty to exercise a closer supervision over the students in his course...