Word: scholarships
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Bowditch, who was a member of the Council this year, is president of the CRIMSON. He also is serving as secretary of Phillips Brooks House, is co-chairman of the Tercentenary Committee, and served on the Scholarship Committee of the Council which made a report to officers of the University a few weeks ago. His term as head of the CRIMSON will end next November, so that this work will not interfere with Council plans...
...result of recommendations included in the report submitted by the Freshman Confidential Guide Committee on May 22, a new Freshman Class Fund, a Freshman Class Scholarship, and a modified Red Book were established on Friday by vote of the New Student Council. At the same time Francis Keppel '38 was made Student Councilman in charge of Freshman a fairs for next year...
...Freshman Scholarship...
...meet stated requirements but upon the fact that it enables him to understand problems and seize opportunities to which he would otherwise be blind. The private schools do not require technical study of Education, although some of them are beginning to value it; but they favor intensive scholarship in a subject and offer more opportunity to teach in one chosen field, without the burden of teaching in unrelated fields--than many of the public schools. The new Harvard program for the preparation of teachers meets all these conditions. It puts the prospective teacher in a position to take advantage...
...Harvard degree of Master of Arts in Teaching is offered by cooperation between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education. As a graduate degree, emphasizing both scholarship and professional competence, it is unique in this country. It is also unique in being a degree which does not rest upon the counting of courses but upon the demonstration of fitness through performance. The standards in the subjects to be taught--Classics, English, Fine Arts, French, Germans, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences--are in general those of the Divisional Examinations in these fields...