Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination. It is an interesting sign that the young government instructors, all of them tutors, who have volunteered the new series of lectures, regard the series as a valuable experiment in the technique of presentation. Harvard is to be treated to a view of what spirited informal and purely extra-curricular lectures can accomplish in the way of presenting information. At least so much is certain: the lectures cannot cover text book material; and they must be well given...
...unique experiment in the history of the instruction systems of American universities will be conducted by the Department of Government at Harvard University during the present academic year when a series of extra-curricular lectures will be presented by younger members of the department, dealing with their particular fields of research. The lectures, scheduled to begin in the latter part of November, are open only to members of the University and are in no way a required part of the regular Government department courses...
Accordingly, they should not be forced to suffer the entire extra financial burden which the H.A.A. feels must be borne by the student body. Perhaps a small sum from each Freshman as well as upperclassman would result in a more fair distribution of this added cost...
...Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried a tea tray for Sessue Hayakawa, did a bit in a Lon Chancy picture, played in a Hal Roach two-reeler...
Everyone from the president down agrees that Vassar girls are tackling their studies with more energy and purpose. Well-geared is Vassar's administration to the current trend toward independent study. Any student may now get extra credit for reading, research or writing done in spare time or summer vacation, and high-ranking juniors and seniors are freed from most classroom requirements. Some critics think the papers in Vassar's Journal of Undergraduate Studies stand up well beside many a graduate thesis. That they take to heart their responsibilities under the New Deal and the New Leisure, Vassar...