Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June issue of the Advocate will appear the report of the committee appointed by the Student Council to consider a working plan for the reading periods adopted by vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2. The reading periods involve the curtailment of actual teaching by members of the Faculty from the present 31 week period to a 25 week limit, by the cessation of lecture instruction for two and a half weeks before midyear examinations and three weeks before final examinations...
...Pool '28 is chairman of the committee, which is composed of M. deW Howe '28, H. F. Schwarz '29 and C. E. Wyzanski '27. Excerpts from the report are printed below...
Five phases of the respite are considered in the report, which deals in turn with the matter of examinations, students' work during the reading periods, competitions and extra-curricular activities, tutorial work, and absence from Cambridge of students during the respite period...
...opening paragraphs of the report commend the adoption of the plan as an opportunity for individual work on the part of students' who possess the necessary initiative, and for writing and research on the part of instructors who are now restricted by academic duties in attempting any such activity. The greater freedom afforded instructors by the adoption of the plan will, in the belief of the committee, tend in time to attract to the University teachers of the highest type...
...sharp-eyed gumshoer from Yale will slink into the Harvard and Dartmouth stands, watch the opponents every game and report to Jones on what they saw, according to a non-scouting agreement between Yale and the teams she will play next fall. Furthermore the Dartmouth Athletic Council, afire with zeal to reform the game, has sent out letters to Brown, Cornell and Harvard Universities, major opponents on next fall's schedule, proposing similar measures. A great deal of fuss has been made over this trival change and we are inclined to agree with the World that when such elaborate means...