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Announcement of second half-year courses of instruction supplementary to those given in the regular bulletin of courses was made last night by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Six new courses are listed, three in Astronomy, two in Psychology, and one in Fine Arts. Four courses will be omitted, three of them in the Psychological field, and one in History. Changes are announced in 12 courses...
Visiting professors play a large part in the second half-year of instruction. Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin, is in charge of half courses on Dutch Painting and on Medieval Painting; Professor Poibram, from the University of Vienna, will give a half-course on the history of the Hapsburg Monarchy, while Professor Buhler, also of the Viennese institution, will take part in courses in Psychology. Professor Persons of Boston University is giving a course in Economics...
...lend themselves to the application of the Reading Period without considerable change in their conduct. As in other sciences, the laboratory work is closely connected and integrated with the formal lectures; accordingly it may be that the Reading Period may not be extended to courses during the second half-year or future years if the trial reveals that its application is not advantageous...
Tutorial reading will be assigned during the Reading Period, and a knowledge of the ground covered in this way will be tested by the tutors at the opening of the second half-year. It is our intention that the tutors should introduce the needed element of elasticity in adjusting the work of their students so that each student will have a unified program with neither too much nor too little reading...
...feel that it would be safe to dissolve section meetings and lectures for students of undergraduate standing, and is therefore experimenting with the Reading Period method in graduate courses. On the results of this experiment, the extension of the plan to other courses in Mathematics during the second half-year will be based