Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discontinuing last year's innovation of holding office hours to advise Freshmen on the choice of a field of concentration the Student Advisory Committee abandons a little used activity. The committee is able to make its real service to the first year men at the opening of College in the fall. Then the friendly counsel of an older student proves valuable both in academic and general matters of undergraduate life...
...contrast with the great use made of the advisory body in the fall, only a handful of Freshmen last year turned to the committee for aid in electing a field of concentration. That this slight interest from the advisees justifies the amount of time spent by the committee in keeping office hours is extremely doubtful. By spring the Freshmen are acclimated to the situation and are well equipped to secure information on the question of concentration...
...Hartwell '32 gave a beautiful exhibition of diving, easily excelling the rest of the field in the four required and two optional punges. W. F. Nelson '32 edged out P. H. Cohen '32 for second place...
...many of these courses, such as Comparative Literature 11, a thesis is still required of those Seniors who are candidates for degrees with distinction, and as a result are spending a large amount of their time on theses in their special field. With both of these falling due within a period of approximately two weeks the Senior inevitably turns from his larger work to fulfill the course requirement in the easiest and most rapid manner possible. This can hardly be of any great value to the student doing such work, or to the professor demanding...
...place of these incomplete texts, presentable trade editions could be supplemented, so that although these courses might not be able to cover such a diversified field, they would not leave so much of an unfavorable impression on the minds of those who have read them. The instructors could supply the notes and the student would acquire an idea of what the literature of that particular nation is like. Since it is required for many to enter these courses it would be well to offer them an opportunity to acquire some literary knowledge if merely due to constant exposure...