Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University has given its approval to the report of a committee, appointed last December, which recommends the establishment of general examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in most undergraduate departments of instruction...
...upon the character of undergraduate training during the next few years. Whatever the merits of the elective system at its best, it has not in most cases insured the pursuit of a well-balanced program of studies by the individual student. Too early specialization at the cost of fundamental general training, or conventional choices at the suggestion of fellow students, fraternity associates, or upper classmen, or an aimless following of the line of least resistance, have been too often the results of freedom...
...requirement of a general examination at the end of the undergraduate course in the field to which the student is supposed to have given special attention ought to go far toward making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view...
...Reverend Rueben Kinder '75, assistant minister at Trinity Church, Boston, for a number of years, died yesterday morning at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was taken to the hospital about a fortnight ago, following a stroke which paralyzed his right side. For most of the time that he was at the hospital he was unconscious...
...classes in any of the schools of the University after a certain hour in the afternoon, so that from then on every one may be free to take part in athletics of some form. If this works out, it will accomplish much for the policy of a more general participation in athletics. The "Y" club which is being organized will include not only "Y" men, but also all those who are trying out for a team...