Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trend is far less pronounced in this than in the field of general academic studies, and particularly the humanities. The school begins on Monday, July 8, and closes on Friday, August 17. Except in language courses, which are an hour and a half long, instruction will be for a period of an hour a day, five days a week. The freedom from interruption thus effected enables what would during the regular year be half a year's work to be accomplished in six weeks...
...concentrating in Biology, for example, is dragged down on one side by a staggering amount of laboratory work, on the other side by a reading period in which no respite from laboratory is allowed, and further by tutorial work and divisionals. With the latter two little fault can be found, for the divisional examinations in Biology are being given for the first time this year, and the tutorial system is as effective as it can ever be until a replacement of "doctor's office" conferences by direct individual laboratory contact can be effected...
...chief trouble with the so-called "reading period" is, as mentioned above, that laboratory work, perhaps fifteen hours a week in a single course, is not interrupted. Secondly, the literature on the subject matter of even the most highly specialized courses is so vast that two or three weeks scarcely gives one time to organize his reading campaign. A lengthening of the reading periods, accompanied by a cessation of laboratory work, might help matters from the point of view of the reading period, but in Comparative Anatomy, for example, the work is covered all too quickly...
...significant feature of the change is the relative permanency of the new secretaryships. Mr. McCord will be able to plan and execute a consistent policy throughout the whole period of transition, and even the student secretary will probably serve long enough to obtain a thorough grasp of the Union's affairs. As the first step in the reorganization essential to cooperation with the House Plan the action of the Graduate Board is both progressive and farsighted...
Lynd was given preference over graduate applicants for the position due to the fact that the Governing Board realizing that the Union would face a difficult period of readjustment when the House Plan goes into effect, desired a secretary who had been active for a number of year...