Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard admissions authorities feel that the findings of the experiment are not conclusive. They say that entrance exams provide an objective check on the student by someone who has not been teaching him, and they intend to continue their use. Any solution to the problem must lie somewhere between the two extremes of absolute freedom for the school, and rigid examination requirements by the college. The College Entrance Board seems at present to be tending toward a mean itself, fortunately, with Harvard's cooperation. Its examinations are more and more becoming the broad survey type, offering questions for students with...
Geology is not a field for the man who is just interested in rocks and things. Unless it is intensely interesting as a hobby or unless you intend to make a career of it, you had better major in something else. If you are good, however, and do have a definite interest, Geology is a field that is very likely to reward you with a job when you graduate. Right now, for instance, oil and mining geology are all the rage, and the men properly equipped for work in these fields are few. For another branch of the subject, paleontology...
...that is recommended so that the non-scientific student can say that he has had a science course, but this is a case of academic license. The material is well-organized and the lab work is easy. If you're gunning for a good mark, though, and really do intend to concentrate, you'd better attend the labs faithfully...
Sixty paintings by about forty Harvard and Radcliffe amateurs are on view. Only a dozen of the contributors intend to make a career of art, and comparatively few are Fine Arts concentrators. The rest merely make a hobby of the brush, but feel that something comparable to the Glee Club is needed to supplement the lecture hall. An attempt to organize a water-color club a few years ago didn't get very far, but Winthrop's successful exhibit of her own artists' work suggested a better way to exchange ideas. The students who have hung up canvasses are hoping...
...advocate transporting every Jew to Palestine. Rather, it confines itself to raising money to buy land in Palestine and to sending there many of its ablest members to investigate and help this project. But its most important and effective work is done with American and foreign Jews who intend to live in this country. It is primarily concerned with teaching Jews what it believes to be the correct attitudes they should adopt towards democracy and their future. Outside of its councils at which many prominent men speak, it organizes youth movements and tries to educate the Jewish community from within...