Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What prompted the experiment? What effect has it produced on the educational system at Harvard? What ideal does it endeavor to approach, and is that a worthy ideal? When we have answered these questions, we shall have discussed, in essence, the vital problems of the divisional examination and the tutorial system coexistent with...
Will the obvious answer to each these problems prove the best remedy or the situation? It seems logical that increasing the number of tutors would settle the first difficulty. Yet, if enough were added to warrant the endeavor, a substantial outlay would be necessary. Furthermore, competent teachers are not always available. It is therefore plain that an extension of the tutorial system must take place over a prolonged period of time. However, that it is the aim of the Faculty at Harvard to make the extension of the system one of its primary objects is to be inferred from President...
Furthermore, the tutorial system may be used to supplement the distributional requirements for a degree. The present mode of 'satisfying these requirements is arbitrary, and does not constitute a well, rounded phase of collegiate endeavor. It introduces into the student's curriculum four totally unrelated courses, in which he has but a passing interest. They represent only a superficial glance into fields of study a part from his real interests...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...
...Cambridge Police Force, which has served in so many extemporaneous tag days, has lately branched into a new field of endeavor which shows they have been reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might...