Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of a Federal Department of Education has come up again. The National Education Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American Federation of Labor and other organizations asked President Coolidge to recommend to Congress the creation of such a Department, its head to be a member of the Cabinet...
...system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn but as a relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination rooms remains an insult to many, yet the Columbia method seems to approach the problem from the wrong end, to put the cart before the horse. Before undergraduates may be allowed all the privileges of the "desire" program, they must be educated...
Among matters of importance is the fact that the Student Council voted unanimously to give its formal approval to the nation-wide Red Cross Drive and to recommend to the undergraduates that they give cordial support to the present drive for membership. The Cambridge branch of the Red Cross is conducting a drive in Cambridge at present...
...quota this year, the rule has made itself thoroughly odious in the past and is far from likely to be a blessing in the future. Proposed originally because there was too little interest in the middle class elections, the rule has not even theory, much less practical success, to recommend it; interest in class elections, it has been proved, can not be awakened by legislation. If the postal ballot method of election does not succeed both in appealing to the voter's interest and catering to his love of ease, nothing will succeed and it is time to abolish Sophomore...
...system of undergraduate control has much to recommend it and during the past two or three years has gained the support of a reaction against the so-called over-emphasis on athletics, particularly in football. Thus while crew at one end of the scale is falling into line, there is a feeling in some quarters that the power and responsibility of the coach in football have reached their zenith. It is unlikely that they will grow much more. But an attempt arbitrarily to hasten their decline, if, in fact, a decline is advisable, would be idle and harmful...