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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to the Harvard Club scholarships, students from the above mentioned group of schools are eligible to awards from the Price Greenleaf Fund, the income from which, about $16,000 annually, is given to first-year students in Harvard College who are candidates for the degree of A.B. About one hundred deserving students are assisted each year from this fund. Deserving students in the three higher classes, who do not win scholarships, may receive aid from the Beneficiary and the Loan Funds. JOHN F. MOORS, Chairman. SYDNEY M. WILLIAMS. E. H. WELLS, Secretary. Committee on Scholarships...
...often the case that an under-graduate entering an advanced course in the group "For Undergraduates and Graduates," finds a number of its members of the latter class. The under-graduate's work, because of his outside interests and narrower knowledge of the subject, naturally does not attain the standard set by the graduate, and the instructor is unwilling to check the progress of the more advanced students for the sake of the slower men. The result is that the undergraduate finds the work beyond him and can not in this case maintain as comparatively high a standard...
...only a beginning. The University needs very urgently a completely new chemical plant for the instruction in elementary courses, as well as for research work in organic and industrial chemistry. At least $500,000 will be needed for these buildings, which should form a systematic and connected group, and another half-million will be necessary for their proper endowment...
...broad enough distribution of courses on the other. Concentration is attained by providing that every student shall take at least six of his courses in some one field. Distribution is a less simple matter. It has been sesured by classifying all the subjects taught in college among four general groups, and requiring every student to take something in each group. In order to attain the second object, that of making a student plan his course of studies in college as a whole and under the best advice, it is provided that at the end of his Freshman year, when...
...order to remedy this dilemma, we would suggest that the theses in each group of courses such as are to be applied to the electives next year be so classified that no theses in the same group will come due at the same time. The report of the committee also suggests that theses for the degree with distinction be arranged to cover the subject matter of more than one course and the work of more than one instructor, whenever the subject lends itself to literary treatment. If these two suggestions could be put into effect, we believe that the congestion...