Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This experiment in encouraging preparation for teaching in a specific field is the first to be undertaken on so large a scale, and its results will be watched with much interest...
Tomorrow at Franklin Field, Philadelphia relay teams of 35 eastern colleges will meet in the Penn Relays, the first intercollegiate test of track strength of the spring season. The University is sending a two-mile relay team composed of Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, F. E. Cummings '30, W. C. Peet '28, and R. P. Porter '29, who will run in the order named. T. H. Alcock '29 is also making the trip, and will compete in the hammer throw...
...Modern Language Department has been the object of much experimentation in its undergraduate work. The tutorial system was first used to its fullest extent in this field; language requirements have been adjusted along more flexible lines, and some sort of effort has been made to cut down the amount of elementary work necessary. Adapted as the courses in this field are to outside reading assignments and critical reports, the Reading Period found its most general acceptance among them, while the other group has for obvious reasons been more conservative in its adoption...
...Department. If, however, it can be shown that it is these latter that are the cause of its renewed vigour, the heads of the Department will have verified for them what they doubtless know already--that progressive methods are as productive of results in education as in any other field...
...strong Harvard baseball team will face a comparatively weak Maine nine this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Yesterday Brown University turned back the Maine forces...