Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this connection it is interesting to note that during the recent depression all graduates of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture have been occupied' at various types of work related to their profession, and that none, even the men graduating last June, have failed to secure positions in this particular field. No one can forecast the length of time that this demand for trained men will continue, but there is every indication that the majority of the public recreational projects will be maintained and that their development will proceed even on restricted lines. The field of the private estate work...
...until their last year do Union men get around to specializing in a particular denomination. Then they spend an hour a week learning about it from a specialist in whatever "church polity" interests them. By examination time in the spring a Union Methodist should be well grounded in all that any Methodist should know; an Episcopalian should be able to answer the hard questions he will be asked before ordination to the diaconate; a Presbyterian can tell the difference between the Westminster and Auburn Confessions. The average member of Union's graduating class will be temporarily content with...
...each other; they are not identical. It therefore becomes the task of the section man to supply this coordination, and yet discuss the implications of all the course material. This is not possible with men of varying abilities, and especially when each student is himself usually concerned with one particular problem in the work. The solution to this difficulty lies in reducing the size of all Philosophy A and B reducing the size of all Philosophy A and B sections, and in providing at the same time for separation of the average man from the advance...
...control the courses, only the tutors can be discussed separately. (An estimate of professors and courses will be found in the articles on Chemistry and Biology). Despite natural human variation, most tutors are considered competent, if not excellent. Because the field is difficult to cover, tutorial work takes on particular importance, and though some tutors are not sufficiently at home in the field to know what must be stressed and what passed over, the average concentrator finds himself well enough prepared for divisionals...
...annual dinner or an occasional election of officers are the only occasions during a College year when Phillips Brooks House comes directly to the attention of the whole student body; for the rest of the time undergraduates work under its name without any particular recognition. A clothing drive or some such activity may call for the cooperation of the rest of the University, but the large part of the charitable work accomplished is never widely recognized...