Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following paragraphs on the Tutorial System are quoted from Dean Hanford's Annual Report...
Declaring that the number of men who graduate with honors has almost doubled since 1923, Dean Hanford, in his annual report to President Conant, said yesterday that this great improvement has been due to "the system of General Examinations, the tutors, the Houses, improvement in the quality of men admitted, and the new arrangements in the Freshman year...
...purpose of College authorities to make it more difficult than in the past for students to remain in College, the Dean's report said. "We should constantly strive to see to it that all the assistance legitimately desirable is given to the willing but less gifted student and that our curriculum and general plan of education are such as to interest, broaden, and develop the non-scholarly type of youth...
...report on the second year of the Harvard College National Scholarships, including records of the holders, and a report of the activity of the Student Council during the past year were also contained in Mr. Hanford's summary of the year...
...presenting his annual report of the state of the college to the president, and through him to the community as a whole, Dean Hanford has directed public gaze to the rising standard of scholarship at Harvard over the past twenty years. For twenty years ago the general divisional examinations were set up as part and parcel of the undergraduate curriculum, substituting for the old course and point plan. Under the stimulus of this comprehensive system, and goaded further by the growth of tutorial work and of the Houses, the number of honors men in the college has doubled, and many...