Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial is designed "to guide students in their respective fields, to assist them in coordinating the knowledge derived from other courses, and to stimulate them in the reading habit." Since a review of the elementary courses is all that is necessary to pass the general exam, the tutors do not go out of their way to corral their tutees, but if approached they are ready, willing, and competent to suggest and advise...
...Senior year the field is divided into five special topics; the History of Psychology, Experimental, Abnormal, Comparative, and Social Psychology. In one examination the candidate for the degree will be tested on three of these topics, and in a second he will be examined on the field in general. In preparation for these examinations a considerable amount of tutorial work is desirable for integration and further study, and with the first class Faculty at Harvard, students feel they have a right to expect a reasonable amount and quality of tutorial instruction...
...second half year course 5, which has been very good, will be given by a now man, Dr. Hurvich, and the title has been changed from Advanced to General Psychology. It will probably be concerned with physiology and be better to take toward the end of one's course...
...advanced courses will vary with the interests of the concentrator, for there are four special fields within the department. The General Examinations are given in Senior year and comprise three three-hour exams, the first a general one on theory, the second on the concentrator's special field, and the third on one of 11 correlation fields. The four special fields are Sociological Theory and Methodology; Social Structure and Institutions; Social Dynamics and Social Change; and Social Pathology and Social Policy...
...manifesto written in the manner of articles of confederation, seceded from the central government of Mexico on May 15, according to information reaching this Mexican border city today, called an extraordinary session after President Lazaro Cardenas sent government troops into the state to disarm agrarian followers of General Saturnino Cedillo. The legislature reported Cedillo commander-in-chief of the army and exhorted other states to join it in forming a provisional government for Mexico...