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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separating the student from tutorial guidance during the Reading Period the University is doubtless placing a great amount of trust in undergraduate ability. That trust is not without foundation; this particular demonstration of it, nevertheless, appears at the present time likely to fallacy. If ever there were a time when the student should have the benefit of his tutor's advice it is during this coming period. Tutorial conferences need not entail tutorial reading in these three weeks--course reading will be sufficiently large to occupy the student; tutorial conferences do, however, offer opportunities wherein the student may approach...
Plans for the application of the Reading Period in two departments of the University were divulged yesterday by the chairmen of the English and Philosophy departments in conferences with a CRIMSON representative. Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96 and Associate Professor C. I. Lewis '05, discussed the measures taken by their respective departments to handle the Reading Period experiment...
Several striking contrasts between the methods of the two departments were revealed. Both departments will follow the general plan of terminating, at the beginning of the Reading Period, all lectures in courses not regularly open to Freshmen, but the elementary courses in English will continue to meet as before, while lectures will cease in the four elementary Philosophy courses, which will hold one or more section meetings each week at the discretion of the instructor...
...Over a period of years Pathe Exchange has been collecting in its files anthropological material with a view toward the preparation of films of educational value. The aid of the Harvard Division of Anthropology has been secured in editing and titling this material and in the production of cinema reels dealing with anthropological topics. Pathe Exchange will install at the Peabody Museum apparatus to be used in this process, and will pay a staff of assistants employed to aid in the cutting and splicing of the proposed films. The material now in the possession of Pathe will be turned over...
Because of its historical interest, the Dramatic Club has insured the gun for a large amount for the period that it will be in Cambridge. Mr. North has promised the weapon to the Nebraska. Historical Society, and it will go directly to that organization at the conclusion of the performances of "The Chisholm Trail...