Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly in accord with the spirit of democracy supposed to be essential to the House idea...
...higher authority to permit a certain loss during the early days of experimentation. A virtual subsidy of this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully favor...
Practice teaching on this general plan has been conducted at Harvard since 1902. The extension of the idea of apprenticeship to other forms of educational service was part of the reorganization of the program of the Graduate School of Education which went into effect in 1927. The School now requires two years of work for the Master's degree with a general examination and apprenticeship in addition to the ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach...
Carrying out the idea expressed in Bingham's speech of acceptance the meeting granted an increase of powers to W. R. Okeson of Lehigh its "commissioner of officials," which permits him to make irrevocable appointments from the list of approved officials. Formerly these appointments were subject to the approval of the colleges involved...
Charles Apted, superintendent of care takers and head of the College yard cops, last night scouted the idea that Federal officers were making any new or concentrated effort to dry up Harvard square, and suggested that this was merely an individual case in which the alleged bootleggers happened to be tracked to Mt. Auburn Street, This view was also supported by the local enforcement officers who could be reached last night...