Word: givens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addison, professor of the History of Religion in the Episcopal Theological School will lecture Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the subject, "What is Religion?" The talk will be given in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, and is the first of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures on religion for the year...
...Choir, founded and conducted by John Smallman, is now on its first trans-continentat our, after having given many performances in the West. Seats will be reserved for ticket holders until 8 o'clock, at which time the public will be admitted. Tickets for officers and students of the University and their families may be obtained, free of charge, at the Music Building between 9 o'clock and noon...
...accordance with the policy of the graduate schools to tighten up in their requirements. The majority of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, however, in contrast to those in the Department of History, will take their examinations with College students when the regular reading tests are given...
...towards which all educators of the modern type seem to be atriving is the development of a close relationship between the professor and the individual student. The adherents to this school of thought must have mingled feelings when they look at the statistics of some of the larger courses given in Harvard College which reveal the extent of mass production in education in its most massive aspects...
...situation is not devoid of hope. Even while the language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...