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...corollary to the general examination system the tutorial system was adopted. At present every upperclassman is assigned to a tutor whose duties are to guide the student and instruct him in studies outside his course which will fill in the gaps between subjects and round out the general education of the tutee. The tutors are, for the most part, regular faculty members, devoting a large part of their time to tutorial duties, and are selected because of special abilities and a taste for individual instruction. The reading period was adopted as a means of strengthening the tutorial system. Another change...
...production 30% or more were to be given an option on as many bales of Government cotton as they would otherwise have grown. The option price would be whatever the Secretary paid for the Farm Board holdings. Presumably cotton prices would mount. Before Jan. 1 the cotton planter would instruct the Secretary to sell his optioned bales in the open market and he would collect as his bounty for crop reduction the difference between the option price and the market price. If the market failed to rise, the planter could let his option lapse without any liability...
...attention: that published last Friday on the field of Economics. I speak of the article because I have some special competence upon the subject of that field of concentration. And yet I must claim to be free from bias on the subject of Economics a, since I do not instruct...
...subjects, written specifically for the layman, are about as well worth while as are any books. However, such books as these have little place in the rightful consideration of the press of a large university. It is remarkable and praiseworthy that Will Durant has been able to interest and instruct so many tens of thousands in his "Story of Philosophy." No one will deny that he has done something worth while on a great scale. But what he, and many other writers to be placed in his general category, has done is something quite outside the field with which...
...half year. Thirty-two dull, padded disquisitions (and who has not heard young instructors confess to this vice?) might give way to fifteen comparatively brilliant ones, delivered towards the end of the semester. The more the faculty become convinced that their function is to comment, not to instruct, that the ideal is not to talk fifty-seven minutes three times a week, but to use lectures as sparingly as possible, the more time the student will have at his disposal, and the more it will be borne in on him that the initiative lies with him in acquiring, through...