Word: elections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON commends to the attention of other departments an action just taken in co-operation with the Division of Education by the Economics Department. Men enrolled in this department have been provided with a set of questions such as "What is to be your vocation?" "Why did you elect this course?" "What difficulties have you met?" The purpose of these questions is not to discover "what the public wants" in order to make any course more entertaining. Neither will the information they elicit affect instructors' estimates of students' work, for the answers are to be mailed directly to the Division...
...purpose of these courses will be to provide the serious student with a larger opportunity for work in his chosen field; and in doing so, to bring him in closer personal contact with his instructors. But it is believed that the courses will benefit not only the men who elect them, but also the college itself. Yale as other colleges, renders her best service to the country in sending out highly trained men; accordingly the more thorough the training Yale undergraduates receive, the more effective Yale becomes. This belief is not peculiar to New Haven, for other American colleges have...
...those who elect them, the honors courses will take the place of the usual major and minor courses. Normally they will occupy twelve hours of the required sixty, six hours to be taken in the Junior year, and six in the senior year. A portion of the work will be in new courses arranged exclusively for honors students. The nature of the work will differ from that in the ordinary course, in that, the student, under the direction and advice of his instructor, will be thrown upon his own initiative. The courses will therefore aim not only to acquaint...
...arranging boxes, for which there will be no extra charge, groups composed of from six to ten couples should elect a chairman and apply for space before February 1, at which time the boxes will be awarded by lot. In order to prevent excessive expense the Committee requests that no flowers be sent...
Recently a class out of College less than a dozen years was forced to reorganize and elect new officers because the ones chosen had lost interest and were not doing the work necessary to keep the class alive...