Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a bit too early to judge by concrete results, but if the Headmaster's report is to be credited, Exeter has apparently found the happy medium between the hickory and sugar-lump theories of secondary education. The Harkness Plan is by no means a new one, but it gains real significance through the high standing of the school which has adopted it and the intelligence with which, to all appearances, it is being executed...
...this, the first number of The Harvard Critic, the editors give as the principal reason for the establishment of a new medium of student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...
...recognition of some such principle as this that lies behind the Lowell Institute. Founded nearly one hundred years ago, this Institute has, through the medium of free public lectures, annually brought to the people the finest fruits of world scholarship. Its work this year is typical. Professor E. S. Mason, of the Harvard Department of Economics, is now delivering a series of eight lectures for the Institute on the subject, "The Economic Problems of Socialism, and of a Planned Economy." At a time when economic issues hold the center of the stage, there could be few questions of more importance...
Last spring the Student Council compiled a graph which demonstrated in striking fashion that "the great bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms...
According to the statutes of the University, the duties of the president are defined in the following manner, "It is the duty of the president of the University to call meetings of the Corporation, and preside at the same; to act as the ordinary medium of communication between the Corporation and the Overseers, and between the Corporation and the Faculties; to make an annual report to the Overseers on the general condition of the University; to preside on public academic days; to preside over the several Faculties; to direct the official correspondence of the University; to acquaint himself with...