Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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September, and another 1000 Freshmen, most of them expecting eventually to be "welcomed to the fellowship of educated men." Freshmen are a perpetual and perennial problem, yet they have not reached the point of considering themselves as problems, so others must needs do it for them. Life is too full of a number of things, including courses. To stay in Harvard they must be passed-somehow. Ways and means are various, good ways and bad. A few may hit on the good ways by virtue of instruction in the matter or because they are essentially students by nature...
...knowledge in the narrow sense, but of experiences. It is a natural process which will take place automatically as long as inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness exist. If the education is obtained in schools, it is directed, orderly accumulation-the facilitation of which is the reason for schools. In schools the problem arises how to get the subject matter of such courses as "History I" into the mental accumulation of the student when his natural inquisitiveness lies not in that direction. Yet such courses must be passed before one is permitted to join the fellowship of educated men. And the course...
...article in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, excerpts from which are printed elsewhere in these columns. Mr. Giles S. Rich,, recently graduated from the College, has done a valuable service in the way of a criticism and remedy for an acknowledged problem-the examination system in large course. He labels his study "The Quiz in Large Courses", that anathema to student and instructor alike. Appropriately enough he concentrates his attention on Freshmen and singles out History 1 to illustrate his case...
...member of the debating team which met the Australian team touring Europe and America on the "White Australia" issue. The debate was presided over by the Right Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, and attracted widespread attention as a statement of the color problem in Australia...
...subjects of their papers are respectively "Our Poliomyelitis Problem" and "The Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis...