Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Catholics throughout the world have rejoiced to hear that Mussolini intends to grant Pius XI a tiny portion of Italy (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq ). It is freely rumored that the 21st Ecumenical Council will sanctify that grant...
...student with three full years to absorb his entire subject for examination at the end of his course will have sufficient background by his Senior year to attempt a specialized job in the form of a thesis, while he is finishing his general work on his field. Each portion of his work should profit from association with the other. The final divisional examination then becomes a true test of general knowledge clarified and made more valuable by concentrated study of a portion...
...inception of this experiment had as its basis a desire to dismiss as early as possible the requirement of a survey of a large field, with a view toward selecting a small portion of that field for highly specialized work in Senior year. A written examination at the end of Junior year closes the consideration of perhaps five hundred years of history, and leaves the candidate free for leisurely work on a subject of his own choice, untroubled by the spectre of divisionals just before graduation...
...likely to be a real dismissal of a mass of fact considered unworthy of full understanding in the face of the more specialized work awaiting the student. Two years can hardly give an undergraduate a mastery of his field sufficient to quality him for intensive study in a portion of it. What it will give is a birdseye view whose details fade rapidly into a shadowy background...
...first place, here as well as at Harvard there is an ever increasing demand for more adequate dormitory space, for the practice of housing a large portion of the Freshman class in boarding houses about town should by now have about run its course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system...