Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word that the Harvard Unit has reached this side of the Atlantic is the last episode in a striking example of the service which a university can render in time of war. Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick...
...laid down the general features of Yale's reconstruction policy. President Hadley plans to establish separate schools for the specialization of students in different branches of professional work, but to form a mediation between the two classes of students in the university--"the semi-professional students working under the group system and the non-professional students working under the elective system...
...three main difficulties to be met are to make arrangements so that a student enrolled in one group may easily change to another group if there is need of it, to provide a similar freedom of interchange of professors so that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...
Membership in these groups is open to all students in the University. Each group is led by a member of the Faculty, assisted by a student secretary which he selects from the members; and the time and place of meeting is decided by each group. At the meetings questions of national and international importance are discussed, affording an excellent opportunity for students to keep in touch with world progress. The group leaders are chosen from different departments of the University, so that each student may discuss the questions which are of most interest...
...preliminary athletic contests, group games, class and intramural races, and formal gymnastic displays might be left with the regularly appointed instructors to arrange--but all final athletic contests and intercollegiate matches and games may best be left with the student athletic organizations to manage under the supervision of an athletic committee as at present constituted. No college, in my opinion, can consistently require its students to engage in strenuous athletic contests with students from another college...