Word: program
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the University are invited, in the Common Room of Standish Hall at 7 o'clock this evening. As had been arranged for the Freshman smoker Colonel Goetz will explain the courses of Military Science for the year 1919-20, and speak on other features of the artillery program...
...program of five races has been arranged for the first day of the annual Invitation Crew Regatta, which begins this afternoon at 3.30. The opening event on the program is a contest between the third 1922 boat and the two club crews from the Newell Boat House. This will be followed at half-hour intervals by races for second school fours, first school fours, senior singles, and a feature event with the M.I.T. second freshmen, Tufts, and the 1922 club crew as competitors...
...addition, the program of instruction shows the liberalizing tendency of the University. While following the same general principles as at older institutions, the work is not so confined to one particular specialty. The electives, moreover, afford a chance to take some of the best cultural courses of the College. This allows a man to obtain a more general education than he could at an ordinary technical school...
Tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock, the Invitation Crew Regatta will start with a race for Senior Singles, to be followed half an hour later, according to present plans, by a contest between boats, representing the Law and Medical Schools. The program, for the following three days is composed of races for school fours and eights, contests for classes and club crews, and several feature events...
...similar action in other institutions, cannot fail to have a good deal of influence upon the character of undergraduate training during the next few years. Whatever the merits of the elective system at its best, it has not in most cases insured the pursuit of a well-balanced program of studies by the individual student. Too early specialization at the cost of fundamental general training, or conventional choices at the suggestion of fellow students, fraternity associates, or upper classmen, or an aimless following of the line of least resistance, have been too often the results of freedom...