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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently many so-called educators have gone to the opposite extreme of placing emphasis on individual differences, an extreme that is no more tenable when employed without check than that of exclusive attention to individual similarities. . . This tendency has reached the college and serves to augment the impulse in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Trend | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

For many years Harvard's work in geography has been scattered through various departments of the university. Economic geography has its due share of attention at the school of business administration. The geographical distribution of plants is covered in the department of botany. The climatology courses given by Professor Ward...

Author: By Boston Herald, | Title: THE PRESS | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Naturally, with the emphasis, as it is, on a novel setting, much of the success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a...

Author: By G. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1930 | See Source »

Professor Matthiessen also contributed his share to relieve the monotony of filling out schedule cards with an eye to a prospective section meeting without knowing the hours of other section meetings, by an announcement which he made in English 32. Professor Matthiessen spoke with disapproval of the over emphasis which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND ENGLISH 32 | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

This sane point of view may seem beyond need of comment, but there are hundreds of American college alumni now living who heard nothing like it during their undergraduate days. Twenty years ago at almost any Eastern college the head coach exhorted the incoming freshman somewhat as follows: "Now remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Root Hog or Die! | 9/24/1930 | See Source »

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