Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which he is capable." The youth who simply cannot pass except in a course largely technical or agricultural will find some technical or agricultural institution ready to accept his preparation. But the great body of general colleges cannot surrender their standards. They can find better ways of measuring compliance with them, and can apply them in a range of subjects somewhat widened, but their watchword should be conservatism. NEW YORK...
Contestants for the Bowdoin Prizes must hand in their essays before April 1, as that is the final date for their acceptance. Professor L. J. Henderson '98, chairman of the Standing Committee on Bowdoin Prizes, has announced that there will be no general extension of time, but, in exceptional cases, the Committee will allow essays to be presented at a later date...
...editorial candidates the work will consist of writing and of having published a certain number of editorials on timely subjects, either of purely undergraduate interest or on matters of general importance. Men elected to the Board from this competition will be eligible for the position of editorial chairman...
...heartily favor the establishment of a Field Artillery Training Unit at Harvard next year, and feel that an infantry unit should also have a place there." said Major-General Clarence R. Edwards in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "To be a successful infantry officer requires just as much training as to be a good artillery officer. In the artillery you deal with material, in the infantry with men, and to handle men well requires more training and experience than to fire a field piece or compute a range. I believe that the training of an infantry officer might...
...reforms which he introduced were not only revolutionary in their character as regards the College, but they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred...