Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information of the object of different courses and the manner in which they are to be treated; and, in the absence of any explanation by the College on this point, it would be well if the students who are acquainted with the courses would give a short criticism of such as are not likely...
...specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from...
...Northfield Conferences were started forty years ago with the object of affording an opportunity to members of different colleges and universities to meet and discuss together the problems common to all. They are held each summer under the auspices of a central committee, and are of a religious character. The problems discussed are all those which affect the growth and welfare of colleges, with the general aim of moral and educational progress through the co-operation of representative students of the various institutions. The business of the Conference goes on in the morning and evening, leaving the afternoon free...
...bureau for all university men abroad, supplying general advice on living in France and holding regular meetings, receptions, and dinners, or whether it will become an ordinary university club with rooms and restaurant, and a permanent resident representative of American universities as a whole. At any rate, the main object of the Union from now on will be to promote research by American students in French universities and encourage their attendance at those institutions...
...system. This could only be accomplished through the active co-operation of the schools themselves, but it is felt that the principals of all schools will see the value of the scheme. The system of concentration and distribution is already pulling its weight in the University. The object of these suggestions is to lighten the weight by clearing up the obscurities connected with this immensely important subject...