Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modifications in the regulation governing admission to Yale University have been made by the Board of Admissions, it became known here today, when the report of Professor Robert N. Corwin, chairman of the Board, to President James R. Angell and the Corporation was made public...
...record will be considered complete at the end of his four-year preparatory course and of the College Entrance Examination Board examinations based upon this course. The examiner needs no further evidence of fitness beyond the school record as tested by written examinations and confirmed by the confidential report of principal or headmaster. The boy is the father of the man, in college as well as in other fields of endeavor. He should be encouraged to prove his preparedness for college by work in regular course rather than by summer tutoring, for there is serious question of whether...
...tutorial system has begun to invade the preparatory school. The annual report of the Rector of St. Paul's School announces that it has been decided to institute a form of honors course. Instead of meeting with their classes the abler students have special assignments with an instructor twice a week to conter about work assigned and to discuss advanced projects...
...speaking tour follows the meeting of the Harvard Club of New York Friday. Both President Lowell and Bingham spoke there before some 500 Harvard men, and are said to have been received most cordially, although T. W. Slocum '90, president of the New York organization, has requested that no report be made of the speeches. President slocum presented Bingham to the gathering as a "diplomat" and complimented him on his silence during a time when there is pressure from all sides for him to talk...
...long discussed and often debated question of the uses and abuses of higher education was recently silhouetted in a vast flood-light of truth from the pen of one of 'America's foremost educators, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard. President Lowell, in his annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education...