Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement at Yale to regulate the number of undergraduate activities in which a student may participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated...
...decision as to whether the departments will adopt the plan remains with the department heads and several have already tentatively accepted the idea...
...their scholastic requirements as a result of lessons learned during the last few years. Harvard has joined them during the last few days by announcing that the plan of holding a general examination for the degree of A. B. will be extended to most of the college departments. The idea of a general examination has been tried out for some time on a limited scale in one branch of undergraduate work with excellent results; it is now to be greatly enlarged in its application...
...cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...
...suggestion by the CRIMSON that the memorial to Harvard soldiers take the form of a great auditorium building seems to me a very happy one. To the request that I offer some thoughts concerning this idea, I am glad to respond. The need of a place for public or great University gatherings has been of late years, so keenly felt as to be a problem. The Stadium is doubtless a fitting place for a part of the Class Day exercises but for Commencement it is in every way unsuited. No other place is at present adequate. So great has been...