Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the move is a good one and bears watching is unnecessary to say. There is in every class, from the time when it is graduated from Kindergarten and matriculated into the first grade, a certain class consciousness that makes it feel that a leader is necessary, that it must have a president. To destroy this inherent belief would be to take the vitality from the class. What would Harvard classes do without officers to draw up lists of the nominees that shall follow them? What would be more drab than a congratulatory or consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council...
Among the ghosts of the Old or PreTutorials Regime that still rise to plague undergraduates in 1930 is the requirement of April grades in courses taken by Seniors. Students in Chemistry, the only field still holding out against Divisionals, of course have no reason to be excused from course requirements after Midyears of their Senior year; but in all other fields, and particularly with regard to men who are writing honors theses, the present system is more than annoying. The three months between Midyears and Divisionals is a small enough time for two such tasks as writing a thesis...
...week opened a pavilion, the Baker Memorial, whose low rates may become the norm for such hospitalization. A bed in a nine-bed ward cost $4.00 a day, in a four-bed room $4.50, in a two-bed room $5.50, in a single room $6.50. These rates supply high-grade sleeping quarters, meals, general nursing, staff supervision, but not private nursing or private medical or surgical care. They are the antithesis of those in Massachusetts General's own luxurious Phillips House* or Manhattan's new Doctor's Hospital (TIME, Feb. 17). Baker Memorial's low charges...
...Southern California Edison Co. gave a laboratory. General Electric is giving the great quartz mirror at cost. Within reason Caltech can get what it needs from U. S. eleemosinary and industrial institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College of Technology, a secondary polytechnic school, at Pasadena. Arthur Henry Fleming, wealthy Canadian-born Los Angeles lumberman, was president of its trustees. He talked Throop up among his rich Los Angeles friends...
...least a partial remedy for this would be the assignment of a thesis, optional if need be, that would be equal with the examination in determining the final grade. Surely slow, careful thought, extending over some period of time, should be considered as important as the hurried, fragmentary lottings of an examination. Only in a thesis can the mass of detail that is bound to accumulate be properly considered and used to best advantage. And, most important of all, it is only in a thesis that a student can do more than throw back the lectures and the reading. (Name...