Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion he touched briefly on social influences which are expected to insure the community of interest, and those bonds which would tend to confirm loyalty to Harvard College in its traditions and atmosphere...
...object of the 'House plan' as proposed for Harvard is social, and in the broader sense cultural. There is no question of sub-dividing the present methods of instruction, of changing the requirements for degrees, or of altering the scope and method of instruction. Professors, assistant professors, and instructors will be Harvard teachers, not teachers of this or that 'House.' Degrees will be Harvard degrees carrying the authority of three hundred years of unbroken traditions. The President of Harvard University will be President of the whole University and all of its component parts...
...recommendation of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half...
...education at Harvard. A celebration in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his work in education was recently held at the home of C. S. Thomas in Newton. Twenty-three members of the staff of the Graduate School of Education attended. The dinner was followed by a social hour in which Dean Holmes read a paper on the School of Education after which he was presented an engraved watch by members of the staff...
This book stands as a reminder that we moderns are the immediate heirs of the middle ages. It is an absorbing account of the political social, economic and cultural development of the most interesting period of European History...