Word: student
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with the bachelor of arts degree and found the experiment so helpful that the plan...
There is no doubt that the Amherst authorities are on the right track, College professors the country over have been far too much concerned about giving instruction and have paid too little heed to the problem of testing the student's general calibre. It is quite possible that we might obtain more education by giving less instruction, thus throwing the undergraduate to a greater extent upon his own resources. --Boston Herald...
...total of $70,030.54 was earned by students through the Employment Office during the year 1917-18, according to the report of the Secretary for Student Employment: This amount is $2,521.80 short of the total earned in 1916-17; but considering the fact that last year was interrupted by R. O. T. C. work and a war regime, the caparison may be called favorable. A large part of the above sum, $26,145, was earned by undergraduates who worked in shipyards during the summer...
...Reverend Dr. Calkins, minister of the First Congregational Church; Cambridge, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock today and every day this week. The services will close promptly at 9 o'clock in order to allow student to reach their examinations at that hour...
Special attention will be given to the student contingents and it is expected that large numbers of students will plan to spend part of their summer vacation on the range. No permit or previous registration will be required. Arrangements will be made to receive any number of participants and to register them when they arrive on the grounds...