Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination period will begin on May 28, when daily exercises in all courses end. Unless 2 o'clock is specified, all examinations are at 9.15 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. (III) Anthropology A Mallinckrodt Large lect. Rm. Anthropology 11 Memorial Hall Astronomy 1 Geol. Lect. Rm. Botany 7 Gray Herb. Chemistry 15 Mallinckrodt Large Rm. Class. Philology 30 Sever 17 Economics 7b New Lect. Hall Economics 31 Sever 5 English 2 Harvard 2, 5, 6 English 54 New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 9 Emerson F, J French 14 Sever 5 Geography 7 Sever 5 Geology 17b Sever 18 German...
...particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes and you will understand what I mean...
...student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along the way. The tutorial system, in other words, still seems to be superimposed, to integrate the course system; whereas ideally the course system should merely supplement it. This seems to be the prevalent opinion. But one system can only grow...
Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...
After the end of the college term, the plane will be used by graduate flyers until July 1. After that date, the plane will be sold according to the custom of the club, and a new one bought in the fall...