Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another officer has been added to the Business Board this year, who will have equal power with the Business Manager. Succeeding John H. Sisson '40 as Business Manager will be Henry Doerr '41 of Leverett House and Minneapolis, while the new Advertising Manager post will be held by H. Field Haviland '41 of Leverett and East Orange...
...strange step backwards, the Division of History-Government-Economics is applying an old and useless method of correlation to take the place of the examinations abandoned last spring. They are demanding that seniors in the fields of government and economics, and not in history, take one full advanced course inside the division but outside their field of concentration. It remains a mystery why the division considers that a single advanced course in addition to the regular requirements can by itself solve the thorny problem of correlation...
...present ruling is founded on a false principle. It assumes that a man taking courses in a subject remotely connected with his own field of concentration will automatically correlate the two fields. In a majority of cases this is impossible without the extra impetus of tutorial, examinations, or written papers combining both subjects. Without such assistance he is very apt to consider the courses merely as two completely unrelated entities. Evidently the division thinks it has solved the problem of correlation by making sure that a concentrator understands one of two particular methods outside his field. Actually he is only...
...long as the plans for broader fields of concentration remain in the embryonic stage, a satisfactory solution is difficult. It is rather too much to hope that sufficiently versatile tutors can be found to shoulder the burden of correlation in History-Government-Economies, much as they would be appreciated. Therefore, the best plan would be for the division to require a short thesis of all its concentrators in the spring of Junior year on any topic which combines their field of concentration with another, whether inside the actual division or not. This freedom is important, frequently government might be combined...
...gridiron squad has already hung up its moleskins for good, and its last act will be to elect the 1940 leader. This afternoon at 3 o'clock 22 lettermen meet in Dillon Field House and cast their ballots to find a successor to ill-fated Torbie Macdonald...