Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic year 1928-1929 will see the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University adopt a pre-examination discontinuance of formal class attendance which is patterned upon the Harvard Reading Period. The arrangement at Cornell is variously modified to make the offspring more conservative than the parent. Their hereditary similarities appear in the resolution of the Cornell faculty...
...laboratories) may be discontinued one week before term examinations begin, it being understood that the members of the faculty will be available for consultation at the regular hours designated for class instruction, and that an examination or equivalent exercise shall be required of all students during the examination period...
...ambition of the Cornell plan is primarily preventative; it will attempt merely, avers the Cornell Sun, to prevent the fevered cramming that precedes examinations. Its effort will be directed to a sound recapitulation of knowledge delivered, rather than reliance on the individual for a period of self-education...
...definite availability of the faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
...difficulty of training the singers for more frequent meetings of the type. However, similarity of programs is not particularly an evil, when the membership of the audience changes to some extent each time, and when the programs are of such real merit as those Doctor Davison offers. The period of the year from the April vacation to the end of May is not one of all-absorbing scholastic or athletic activity; so the Glee Club does not at that time have such dangerous competition for its members' attention as earlier in the year. In consideration of the popularity...