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Saturday is the last day in the first half-year upon which students in Harvard College may change (drop or add), without liability for a fee of $5.00, any course of study beginning in the first half-year...
...half-course in the second half-year on the Management of Institutions and Welfare Agencies will be given by Professor James Ford '85 in conjunction with the following special lectures:--Sanford Bates LL. B., Commissioner of Correction, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, lecturer on Administration of Correctional Institutions. John E. Fish M. D., Superintendent, Massachusetts Hospital School, Canton, lecturer on Institution Management. Robert W. Kelso '09, LL.B., Executive Secretary, Boston Council of Social Agencies; lecturer on Supervision and Control of Welfare Institutions. John F. Moors '83, A. M., LL. D., President, Family Welfare Society of Boston, lecturer on Emergency Relief. Thomas...
...courses offered for professional students in Social Ethics for this academic year have been changed by the withdrawal of Social Ethics 26, "Methods of Social Investigation", and the substitution of Social Ethics 27, "Social Service Diagnosis and Case work", in the first half-year. Professor Ford's course in the Purpose, Form and Technique of Social Service, Housing and Town Planning and Community Organization will be given as originally announced...
...desirable to hold students responsible for the first half-year's work, but only in general outline or in so far as is absolutely essential to a background for the second half. So much is not only requisite for an intelligent comprehension of the course but is also valuable in preparation for the divisionals. Yet undergraduates often waste their time absorbing a host of details appertaining to work covered before the mid-year period which are of little value in passing a final examination or in understanding the subject matter as a whole. There can be no particular advantage...
...would seem advisable for the faculty to establish a course similar to History A, open only to Seniors preparing for the divisional examinations, covering in one half-year the required books of the ancients; in the other, the prescribed works of the great modern authors. Lectures by professors, authorities in the literature of the various ages under discussion, would give the student a more comprehensive grasp of the true significance of the books they were reading. In any case, the present system is unsatisfactory, and, unless some action is taken to lessen the general indefinite feeling about the new requirements...