Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory behind this experiment is in line with the modern tendency in education and for the practical application of the principle no better field could be found than Harvard University. The vast resources for research, and the presence of a faculty which is second to none in this country marks this college as one in which a student would be able to utilize his opportunities to the utmost...
...methods, constantly shifting with the advent of new outlooks on life, are changing so fast that scholarships endowed for a definite course of study in one decade may be obsolete in the next. The St. Johns' plan introduces a novel system of study at college. There is a new field now opened up for those donors who are willing to give scholarships without any restricting stipulations, and who are willing to open up a limitless field of knowledge to those who are able to make advantage of the opportunities offered...
...Harvard University soccer team will meet Northeastern this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on the field behind the Business School. The Boston team will be the hardest foe Harvard has yet had to contend with this season, having won the last 15 games it has played, over this fall and part of last season. Harvard has won all four games it has played so far this season, defeating Dartmouth by the score of 2 to 0; Bridgewater Normal 7 to 2; Syracuse 1 to 0; and Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3 to 0. Only one legitimate goal has been counted against...
...that the reading period is going into its third year, many of the old abuses are fortunately being slowly obliterated. The fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...
Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...