Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brues, Associate Professor of Economic Entomology, to obtain collections for a continuation of his work on the adaptations of aquatic animal life to high temperatures...
...photography in the study of Fine Arts is exemplified at its best in the exhibition of photographs taken by Professor Clarence Kennedy of Smith College, now being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. For obvious reasons satisfactory photographs of sculpture are far more difficult to obtain than those of paintings. They demand a sympathetic study of the object from innumerable points of view, and in varying lights and shadows in order to bring out the essential and finest qualities. Appreciating this to the full, and realizing the importance of good reproductions for the use of students...
...bridges, such as are used in crowded parts of London, over Massachusetts Avenue. Traffic certainly cannot be asked to detour a quarter of a mile for the conveniences of the college; neither does it seem right that those who come to Cambridge for an education should be obliged to obtain it at the risk of their lives...
...reasoning behind such a development runs somewhat as follows: Tutorial systems are expensive. They require larger endowments than the average college is willing or able to obtain. They are therefore re-named Honors courses, narrowly limited in number to the highest grade students. The bulk of the undergraduate body continues under the old plan. Against this stabling together of the old with the new arise two different protests. John H. McDill writes to the Yale Daily News advocating "an enlarged system of honors", through which "More than the present limited few undergraduates would be enabled to engage in serious, intensive...
...Tutorial system. In cases of very limited finances further elimination by other admission requirements might be necessary. These measures would automatically force a reorganization of the curriculum of schools preparing for college to meet the changed demands. Finally, for those capable of further education beyond school but unable to obtain admission to the college, an intermediate stage, already represented in the Junior College, should be developed which would offer a two year course and a diploma. In this way the gaps, injustices, and inconsistencies which are cropping out in the present reorganization of educational methods and ideals would be largely...