Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explorations by the Museum in the southwest were under the general direction of Dr. Kidder, Curator of Southwestern American Archaeology. Mr. C. B. Cosgrave continued the excavations begun last year of a pueblo in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. In the pueblo proper and in the plaza connected there with 41 rooms were cleared of debris and soil which filled and covered them. The number of burials unearthed this season was 254. In addition to the usual types of implements and ornaments common in the region, 178 bowls and other forms of pottery vessels were recovered...
...evident that the person for whom this idea has been formulated cannot but appreciate the chance to enjoy its incorporation into the university system. It is the less purposive person whom this plan does not particularly help. Uncertain as to his proper concentration, interested in multifarious activities necessary to his development, he does not have sufficient time in his sophomore and junior years to gain a sufficiently comprehensive understanding of such a field, for instance, as English literature. Though the plan allows him to become a candidate for distinction in his senior year, to do practically what is done under...
...recognize that there is this danger inherent in the club system, does not imply that the club system should be condemned. What it does imply is that in order to maintain in the proper balance, which is one of the objects of education, the centripetal force which draws like and like together in a club, should be counterpoised by a centrifugal force which should insure that un likes also meet and know each other...
...committee believes that this condition is the most serious defect in the operation of the tutorial system, and that the remedy lies in finding some method of giving tutorial work its proper due in the earlier years. . . . The following plan is proposed...
These tendencies, of which the above are extreme examples, are very unfortunate and constitute one of the very real problems of Harvard education. Instead of occupying their proper complementary relation, the social and academic aspects of education are thrown into seeming conflict. It is not that extra-curricular activities are a bad influence, as scholars are sometimes minded to think them. They are invaluable aids--nay, rather, integral and indispensable parts of-the educational system. But they call for a balance of attention and interest which it seems very, difficult for students to maintain...