Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation it has been proposed by some to abolish the examinations in "related" fields entirely. And substitute certain course requirements which would cover the ground. But this suggestion is hardly in line with the increasing emphasis toward tutorial work as distinguished from mere counting of courses. Another solution might lie in giving these examinations at the conclusion of the Sophomore or Junior year so that men would have a fresher knowledge of the subjects and would have more leisure to prepare for them. While there is much to be said for such a plan the experiences of other departments with...
...outstanding advantages of the new plan over the old one lie in the broad acquaintance it gives candidates with the three minor sport fields, and in the practical experience afforded in managing basketball, fencing, and wrestling before a choice of one sport is required. Candidates will be rated, as in all other Harvard managerial competitions, on scholarship, executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that...
Mons Star, King's Medal, Allied Medal. His books: Private Peat, The Inexcusable Lie...
...huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research...
...classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically...