Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony next year in which Harvard College will play an important part were made public last night by Herbert Parker '78, chairman of the State Commission, in a report filed yesterday with the clerk of the Legislature...
...inseparably connected by history and tradition, and the record of the former has received much of its lustre through the able guidance of graduates from the college on the Charles. For well over a century Harvard was a state institution, and the close relationship is still evidenced by the part which the Governor of the Commonwealth plays in the annual commencement exercises...
...part which the aeroplane plays in the expedition seems to me to be mainly that of a trail-breaker. General survey, of course, may be accomplished by plane very successfully, but the real exploration will have to be done on the ground...
Practice teaching on this general plan has been conducted at Harvard since 1902. The extension of the idea of apprenticeship to other forms of educational service was part of the reorganization of the program of the Graduate School of Education which went into effect in 1927. The School now requires two years of work for the Master's degree with a general examination and apprenticeship in addition to the ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach...
...well known report on undergraduate concentration President Lowell pointed out that the emphasis should be on avocational or cultural rather than professional training. Economics gives a broad viewpoint on life when approached in a proper spirit, but it is to be feared that these figures in large part indicate at tendency toward premature vocational training which should not be encouraged...