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...advisability of such a step is prehaps doubtful. While tutors usually advise writing theses as early in the year as possible in order to leave plenty of time in the second half-year to prepare for Divisionals, human nature generally brings it about that the finishing touches are not put on until April. Most of the student's interest and tutorial work have been devoted to the thesis, and there remains less than a month in which to prepare for the examinations. Even this brief time is cut into by April hour examinations...
...improvement in the examination on the related fields to go into effect next year should do something by restricting the field which each student must cover. Nevertheless something more should be done to reduce the unbearable pressure of thesis, course work, and three Divisional examinations all toward the end of the Senior year. Possibly it may be wise to consider shifting the thesis date ahead, spreading the Generals over a longer period, or abolishing entirely regular course work for honors candidates during the second half-year. More thought must be given to the relation of the tutorial system...
...will lecture at 4.30 o'clock on Monday. May 12 in the galleries, taking as his subject the paintings of the loan exhibition. At that time visitors will have the opportunity to hear him speak on the works which he has discussed in his Harvard classes during the second half-year. Among the contributing museums are the Metropolitan Museum, the Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the School of Fine Arts at Yale and the Elizabethan Club of New Haven...
...weekly conference of an hour in groups of four students and an instructor, a monthly lecture to the whole course on general questions of style and literature, and additional outside reading. As at present, there will be an hour and a mid-year examination in the first half-year, and students without conditions will be allowed to choose the style of writing they study for the second half...
Heathcote William Garrod, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry this year, will give his seventh lecture of the year tonight at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Large Lecture Room, speaking on "Methods of Criticism in Poetry." Professor Garrod, who has already lectured this half-year on Arthur Hugh Clough and Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty," will deliver his final lecture on Tuesday evening March 11, when his subject will be "Matthew Arnold as Critic...