Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening on June 28, the seminar will offer specialized training in Health Education for school administrators, teachers of Nutrition,--Social Studies, Health and Physical Education, and members of agencies in the school health field...
Just what individuals make up the student body is the first matter of import. The Harvard degree may be meaningful to an applicant in social, intellectual, or commercial ways. The Committee on Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most...
...College has a social as well as academic responsibility to its students. In the freshman year this means working through the Union, seeking to extend its facilities for the class. Afterwards it means trying to make the Houses something more than the dining halls and dormitories that, with one or two exceptions, they are now. This implies the use of every possible academic or social device to restore the Houses to their original central purpose. Throughout the individual's four years it means the College's responsibility not to re-emphasize the family and social backgrounds of individuals...
Ruth Kennedy and Rosalyne Spindel, both Radcliffe '50, will share the Alumnae award equally for their scholastic showing. Miss Kennedy's field of concentration is social relations while Miss Spindel is majoring in economics...
...program, none of the elements in it is revolutionary or unknown at Harvard. General Education courses have shown the way toward substitution of papers for examinations. Conference groups are in use here and in large numbers of other United States colleges. Group tutorial has been tried successfully in the Social Relations Department and others...