Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perusal of a Harvard handbook for 1892 yesterday, several interesting facts were revealed, some of which are herewith printed...
...speaking of the publications, the handbook read "The best known of them, and the one which has come nearest to making itself essential, is the CRIMSON. The changes which have taken place during the last College generation in the management of the CRIMSON has made it very much of a business undertaking. Its management now is modelled as closely as possible after that of the practical daily newspaper, and the training which its editors got is becoming more valuable very year as a preparation for actual newspaper work...
...pays real deference, in short, to the modern science of pedagogics. The declaration that "the student must have time for consecutive reading and other large tasks, free from a schedule that breaks up his work into small, unrelated units" might well have been cribbed directly from any good modern handbook on the psychology and technique of education. It is a doctrine which has had great influence during the last decade in the high schools, the grade schools and even the better kindergartens. But in American colleges, where the psychologists of education live and draw their pay who have discovered these...
...time the Freshmen-to-be are beginning to wonder what they are going to put into their trunks when they start for Cambridge; a letter of welcome is sent out to each by the President of the Phillips Brooks House Association. With the letter, a copy of the Harvard Handbook is sent. This Handbook is drawn up each year by a Student Business Board and about 2500 copies printed. It contains information on all extra-curricular activities of the University; schedules and important dates in the current college year, Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other...
...story is written. If we take into consideration the number of students who use its parlors, its rooming list, its information Bureau, and its Handbook, and add to this the number that attend its meetings or who are actively engaged on its committees or in its work, we shall find but few who do not profit in some way by the giving or accepting its service. Much of its work is of the sort that cannot be cried from the house tops, and so it is that in this age of advertisement the question may some times be asked "What...