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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For so vital a field as government, it is criminal that a university of Harvard's repute and influence should continue to provide so unsatisfactory and uninspiring an approach as Government 1. Not since the days when A. Lawrence Lowell was the lecturer has the course possessed any real value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POLLS | 5/7/1935 | See Source »

President Conant, in announcing a new Ph.D. degree in the "History of Science and Learning." has once again revealed the essential wisdom as well as the superficial inconsistency of University policy. Unanswerable arguments are advanced proving the cultural and intellectual value of courses in the history of science, yet they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE. | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Vitally important in a well-rounded lecture are presentation and content. Thanks to the renewed emphasis on scholarship, few Harvard lecturers last long without the latter. But it is the ability to stimulate, the extent to which a man brings into his subject the dynamics which give it significance, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GETTING IT ACROSS" | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

"The distinction between self-education under guidance and direct instruction by imparting information is not absolute and irreconcilable. It is one of emphasis, attitude, and tendency, yet it is of prime importance. It is not without significance, and to some extent reflects and measures the current of the times.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. LOWELL PAYS HIGHEST TRIBUTE TO BOSTON LATIN | 4/24/1935 | See Source »

Should the Advisers be closer at hand to their Advisees so that they will have more direct contact with them? Should courses be conducted by men capable of inspiring enthusiasm or should the emphasis be placed on scholarship? Can any more satisfactory solution be found for the student waiter in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EXPERIMENT | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

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