Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teele said last night that chemistry, physics, and other technical concentrators have a slight advantage over their classmates in Humanities and Social Sciences. The Northwestern figures show that engineering graduates average $340 to $275 to start, compared to 1939 range...
...students realize, too, that despite Dr. Arlie V. Bock's yearly disjoiner, intensive cramming just before an examination will often produce a much better mark for a quick-minded student than long hours earlier in the term. The fact that the Social Relations Department, in spite of expert knowledge in the field and constant experimentation, has been unable to approach perfection of method is an interesting proof of the difficulties of testing...
...long-term answer to the examination problem in Harvard College will probably not come as a product of work in the Social Relations Department or of the efforts of the experts on testing, for the essential difficulty is not one of methodology--whether an examination is objective or subjective or a mixture. The examination systems is closely tied to the lecture system, to the whole modern tradition of Harvard education. Until that tradition is altered, examinations, except possibly for minor reforms, are here to stay...
Phillips Brooks House's 217-man social service committee honored its co-chairmen; Norman H. Brooks '49 and Jay J. Melizer '49, with signed testimonials at its first Cabinet dinner of the new term last night...
Charles W. Duhig '29, graduate secretary of PBH, cited the pair's achievement "in rebuilding the social service committee from its wartime low to the second largest in Harvard history," while guest speaker John M. Kingman '14, head of the Lincoln-Hale House in South Boston, added his congratulations...