Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced, one great essential has been provided for in a manner quite obviously excellent. The speakers for the occasion will be two and two only--President James R. Angell from among the guests and President A. Lawrence Lowell on behalf of the hosts. Here is an assured promise of interest and significance. For once, one imagines, the theme of oratory will be not largely concerned with football. Two great educators will stand together before the Boston alumni of their two institutions, and the cause of higher education will have bright light turned upon it indeed. --Boston Transcript...
Professor Ward answers these questions and a good many more in the manner of the profound scientist that he is. His lectures are models of clear cut precision which cannot help maintaining the interest of his audience from beginning to end. A thorough set of notes is virtually essential inasmuch as there is no up-to-date text book on the subject and the examinations are based entirely on the lectures...
...grounding in ear training. If not, Music 1a is advised. The study of harmony is not carried so far, but a great deal more emphasis is placed on ear training and development. Both courses offer practice in writing four-part harmony. Neither are advised unless one has a serious interest in music. Even with this interest, the two music courses may prove boring, although 1a is rather more endurable than...
...your issues last June you offered some editorial advice concerning the conduct of Government 1. This justifiable interest on your part in the conduct of the course is my excuse for addressing you at this time...
...attitude in completely revising Government 1, to answer constantly growing criticism of what was almost generally conceded to be the classic example of the preparatory school course in college, is a step so obviously in the right direction that it deserves more than passing mention from those vitally interested in Harvard's progressive policy. The main point in his new program, as any one can deduce from a careful reading of the Confidential Guide to Government 1, included in today's issue of the CRIMSON is not chiefly a change in the periods between quizzes or the order in which...