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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects as illustrations for the Bible to dancing figures by Toulouse-Lautrec. Among them are woodcut book-illustrations, numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper substitutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

Approximately three years ago a plan was adopted by Johns Hopkins University by which the students were permitted to enter the graduate schools at the end of their sophomore year rather than requiring the regular four year college course. The object of this innovation was to give the advanced student more time to devote to his particular field, thus acquiring greater efficiency. Now, at the end of three years, a report on the system declares that all of the men working under it are doing well. From the point of view of modern education, however, this project is at fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICKENING THE PACE | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...student does enter a graduate school at the end of the sophomore year, it is very doubtful whether he has acquired a sufficiently broad education to enable him to be an unblased judge of general affairs. The preparatory education that the average person has before coming to college usually consists of just sufficient elementary knowledge to satisfy entrance requirements. It is therefore up to the college to provide all of the cultural background that is necessary for a professional man. When the regular four year course is reduced to two, it is impossible to fill this requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICKENING THE PACE | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...details of an arrangement which will continue in effect for 200 or 300 years. The locations of certain buildings as proposed by the architects are considered by many not the best possible; and it is generally thought that the plan recently presented by two members of the student council for the building of a second yard between De Wolfe and Boylston Streets should not be altogether discarded until careful consideration has been given to its suggestions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Opposition to House Plan Unfounded Says Williams | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

...been a volte-face. Furthermore, while it is not important to whom Mr. Williams refers as undergraduate leaders, the fact that little but opposition to the plan has been heard lately seems to have escaped his notice. The advisability of the House plan has been debated in the Student Council, in club circles, and by undergraduate publications where as much knowledge of it as possible has been obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRANDEUR OF GENERALITY | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

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