Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above quotations are taken from the essay printed below, which, submitted by James Harry Smith '25, received honorable mention in the Crimson essay contest...
...above quotations are taken from the essay printed below, which was submitted in the Crimson essay contest by Edward Brooks Ballard '27, under the title "Harvard's Dual Educational System." This essay, which is one of the two contributions winning honorable mention in the contest, will be followed in the near future by the other, submitted by James Harry Smith...
Today the departmental examinations in History, Government, and Economics will be held in Memorial Hall from 9.15 to 12.15 and the essay examinations of Social Ethics from 9.30 to 12.30 in Emerson...
...winning essay, as well as the two which won honorable mention, dealt with some phase of Harvard's tutorial system. Thirteen essays out of the 42 took up this subject from every conceivable angle. There was one which advocated introducing the European system of instruction; another sought divisional examinations for Sophomores: still another agitated for more creative work in the tutorial field. Other essays demanded a renovation of English A. compulsory attendance at classes, limitation of admission numbers, and a truce from attacking Harvard. Some dealt with a use for Memorial Hall, a system to establish intimacy between professors...
...winning essay, by Durand, advocates a division of all undergraduates into Distinction and Pass groups at the close of the Sophomore year. For Pass men the requirements for a degree would remain much as they are at present, but for Distinction men the four-year curriculum would be completed in three years. At the end of the Junior year the student would take his divisional examinations, and his Senior year would be devoted to such advanced work as is now done by graduate students...