Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Instructive Group of Portraits...
...provide a natural opportunity for men from the different colleges to meet for an unhurried consideration, in especially agreeable surroundings, of the vital significance of Christianity for the colleges and for the college man in his various callings. The daily program includes two meetings of all the delegations, group classes for Bible study, mission study, or the study of social problems, and larger group conferences on life work. The afternoons are given over entirely to recreation; an intercollegiate baseball series, a tennis tournament and a track meet are among the diversions arranged. The leaders and speakers, who are always...
...opportunity to hear President Lowell explain the ins and outs of the recently adopted "elective-group" system should command the attention of every member of the Freshman class at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon. Even to upperclassmen familiar with the old scheme of electives, the rules now in force for 1914 and 1915 seem complicated to a degree. To Freshmen, and especially to that always large number of the class completely at sea as to the nature of their life work, this exposition of the requirements should prove of unique value. Although members of the Faculty are fully competent...
...Schmeid began the second group with Macdowell's pianistic revision of a Sarabande of Rameau and contrasted with this Schumann's "Des Abends." His poetic interpretation of Macdowell's Prelude won for him most enthusiastic applause. Unusual interest was manifested in Mr. Schmied's own compositions. Though very simple in form they showed interesting harmonic development and rhythmic variety. "Jardins sous la pluie" was the favorite of the Debussy numbers...
...been adopted to some extent in the Medical School and is under consideration in the Divinity School, leads us to believe that here may be some means of escape from what the President himself terms "defective methods." Might it not be possible with the development of the "elective-group" system to have examinations for each group alone? Certain other subdivisions would probably have to be made. But any concentration of the present one-examination-for-every-course system would, as the President implies, make separate courses not an end (as they are generally now considered) but a means...