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Students who come to the School without experience are ordinarily apprenticed in their first year as teachers, and later, if they are working toward administration, supervision, or some form of special service, they take additional apprenticeship in connection with advanced courses. The practice teachers whose work is supervised by the School therefore include nearly all inexperienced students whether or not they intend to seek positions as classroom instructors. These practice teachers also include a few undergraduates who are taking advantage of the opportunity to include the practice teaching course, without credit, in the work of their Senior year...
...conducted in close connection with the theoretical study of the process of learning and the problems of teaching and class management as a means of stimulating and guiding the learner. Assignments to practice positions in the schools are made after three weeks of preliminary study in the course. The first task of the practice teacher is to observe classroom work. As soon as the student becomes familiar with the work of the class to which he is assigned, he is permitted gradually to participate in the teaching. At the end of the year most of the teachers will...
...operating with Professor Spaulding and Mr. Wilson are various specialists on the staff of the School, who participate in supervising the first-year apprenticeship in their own fields, and who take full charge of second-year apprenticeship for classroom instructors. The list includes Professor L. J. A. Mercier in French and Professor Ralph Beatley '13 in mathematics. In addition to supervision from members of the Education Faculty practice teachers work under the immediate oversight of critic teachers in the schools, who are selected and paid by the Graduate School of Education for this work...
Some of the most prominent swordsmen of the country will be seen in a public fencing exhibition in Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday at 8.30 o'clock. This is the first such demonstration at Harvard and is being held at the suggestion of Rene Peroy, the Harvard fencing coach, for the purpose of enlightening the student body on the merits of the sport, and consequently to raise some interest and backing for the coming winter meets...
...names of 28 members of the Senior Class will be voted on today in the first elections held by the Class of 1930. Of this number, nine will become officers; three Marshals, and one each in the positions of Treasurer, Orator, Chorister, Ivy Orator, Poet, and Odist. The petition nominating Theodore Hall, Jr. '30 for the position of Poet was received by the CRIMSON too late to appear yesterday. His name will, however, appear on the ballots. In addition to the choosing of officers, members of the Class of 1930 will have an opportunity to vote on the constitution proposed...