Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice an otherwise obscure group of Harvard men. Most Chemists have a habit of keeping pretty close to their laboratories and mingling with the immutable laws of nature rather than the variabilities of human social life. Any organization, however specialized, which brings these men together with others in their field is a step to helping them to a broader point of view. There are of course regular national and local Chemical societies, but an association purely of Harvard men has an advantage in that it supplies a common meeting ground exclusively of field interest...
Membership in the Association of Harvard Chemists is open to all those who graduate from Harvard, having concentrated in the field of chemistry. The purposes of the organization are to aid the Division of Chemistry at Harvard in any way possible, to further good fellowship among Harvard chemists by meeting at each convention of the American Chemical Society and occasionally in Cambridge, and to aid its members in their professional advance through its Employment Committee of which Professor Grinnell Jones of the Chemistry Department is Chairman...
...week there was to be a concert, he would get into the habit of always keeping that evening free, a custom quite common in the English Universities. The conditions of the present gift easily allow of such use and the fact that many Universities far outdistance Harvard in this field demands that the Music department give careful attention to its possibilities...
...Seniors with or without distinction, there emerges a conflict between two aspects of the academic progress which should be in harmony, each fulfilling its purpose without a disturbing contact with the other. The work done in courses and the tutorial and individual work done in a student's field of concentration contribute, each in its own measure, toward the education of which the Bachelor's degree is the tangible evidence. But at the last those who give courses become jealous of control over the result. Is it fair to the student, or wholly in keeping with the professed idea...
Since the inception of the divisional plan the courses taken in a field of concentration have become a mere means to a mastery of that field. The knowledge gained is tested in the divisional examinations; and in the case of honors candidates, a thesis provides a wider proving ground. When a man has passed his divisional requirements, he is excused from final examinations; his courses, having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should...