Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class will speak on Senior activities this spring, including plans for the coming picnic, picture and Class Day. The speakers tonight are: H. C. Flower, first marshal of the class; C. A. Clark, Jr., chairman of the Class Day Committees; L. K. Garrison, class treasurer; and Charles Jackson '98, general secretary of the Alumni Association...
Thursday night at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Mr. Arthur Whiting will give the last of the 1918-19 series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music. The concert is open without charge to all members of the University. Tickets for the general public are on sale at Amee Brothers...
...introduction and in order to expose to full public view the news peg on which every newspaper story is supposed to hand, let it be declared that Harvard is doing itself and higher education in general a distinctly good turn in allowing any department to require general final examinations as a prerequisite for graduation. Incidentally, it is also doing the students a good turn, although it is not inconceivable that there might be some difficulty in getting the students to admit it. Boston Transcript
Before the Faculty decides in favor of extending the general examination plan now used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the failure of the tutorial plan in the present system should be remedied. The average student derives almost no benefit from his fortnightly tutorial conferences, and until the middle of his Senior year looks upon them as an unpleasant and useless extra task to be hurried over and forgotten. Then, too late, he realizes his mistake and sees the connecting and comprehensive values his work has failed to gain...
...Corporation is composed mainly of bankers, and although it is true that the College does not compare as an intellectual center with most of the English universities, the connection between the two appears rather remote. The Corporation owns the University, appoints and pays the professors, and administers, in general, all its affairs; but in the selection of courses and the direction of the matters of instruction, and in the internal management, the Corporation concerns itself but little. It acts upon the recommendation of the Faculty and the Overseers, and in many cases, merely serves as the "official rubber stamp...