Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These men will debate with the Radcliffe speakers on a split team basis, two speakers from each school forming each team. J. G. Gilbert '33 and J. R. Wink '33 were selected as alternates...
With nearly eight hundred men in English A1 and with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...
...requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...
...years ago as the Committee on Economic Research, has come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater comprehension of underlying conditions than...
...both the importance and the purposes of the Society. A round table discussion of "The Money Market in 1929", to take only one example, can hardly fail to be stimulating and instructive under the leadership of Mr. Burgess of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. And anything that such men as Dr. Vanderblue, Professor Crum, and Colonel Ayres may have to say on the general business situation may well be of national interest...