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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of an adequate gymnasium, printed below, provides for a thoroughly modern and complete building to fill the needs for which the old Hemenway Gymnasium is now too small. It is designed to have one large central room, which would contain one or two basketball courts, and would be completely equipped with gymnastic apparatus including, scaling ladders, climbing poles, horizontal bars, scaling walls, parallel bars, and leather covered horses, as well as the lighter apparatus such as bar-bells, quarter-staves, wands, dumb-bells, single sticks, and Indian clubs. Branching off from this central space are smaller rooms, which would...
...decision as to whether the departments will adopt the plan remains with the department heads and several have already tentatively accepted the idea...
...expected plan goes through, examinations will be given in all departments except those listed under Group II in the elective pamphlet, which include the sciences as well as mathematics. Members of the Class of 1922 will be the first men to be affected by the new plan, since men in the present three upper classes will continue under the system which...
Yale and Princeton are not alone in making important changes in their scholastic requirements as a result of lessons learned during the last few years. Harvard has joined them during the last few days by announcing that the plan of holding a general examination for the degree of A. B. will be extended to most of the college departments. The idea of a general examination has been tried out for some time on a limited scale in one branch of undergraduate work with excellent results; it is now to be greatly enlarged in its application...
...Harvard proposal is that students shall hereafter, except in a few cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...