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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses that will adopt the reading period in this department are: Zoology 4, 5, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7c, and 17, Laboratory work in Zoology 5 will continue, but its constant supervision will be replaced by occasional conferences. Zoology 3 is not considered far enough advanced to use most profitably the Reading Period, nor are the elementary courses Biology A and Zoology...
...more advanced courses the laboratory work is not minutely prescribed nor meticulously supervised. The students work to a large extent independently and much opportunity is offered for the exercise of their initiative and originality. Laboratory work under such conditions is entirely consistent with the purpose contemplated by the Reading Period...
...department of Botany it has been definitely decided that the Reading Period will be covered as part of the course in the midyear examinations. This will probably be adopted by the other departments as well, instead of an alternate choice of a required paper on specially assigned topics by tutors...
Botany 2, 6, 11, and 15 will adopt the Reading Period. All other eligible Botany courses with the exception of Botany 7 will probably adopt the Reading Period in another year. These are not adopting it now because of the incompatibility of the Reading Period and the lectures arranged before the Reading Period was formally decided upon...
Laboratory work, which constitutes in Chemistry, more than in other sciences, the active work of the students engaged upon its study, will continue throughout the Reading Period, according to G. P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the department. Four courses, all of an advanced nature, will employ it at mid-years. They are Chemistry 11, Industrial Chemistry, the single course of the four which is not primarily for graduates alone: Chemistry 6. Physical Chemistry: Chemistry 10, Gas Analysis: and Chemistry 16. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry...