Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catalogue of any American college gives a fair idea of the final steps in the educational process as it is now applied. The student must first concentrate, or major, in one subject, and take several courses in that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...
...these students that the institutional training furnished by our colleges may be particularly harmful. I would appeal to them, and direct my appeal to their parents, for it is generally as a result of parental influence that they find themselves in college. In practically every case of serious maladjustment which I have discovered among college students, I have come ultimately to the statement, 'I didn't really want to come to college; I just did it to please the family.' It develops that the student has been persuaded into college by his parents and his contemporaries (who have in turn...
...problem of the adventurer is very much akin to this problem of the artisan. One of the greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough...
Charles McKim Norton '29, of New York, N. Y., at present a first-year student in the Harvard Law School, has just been announced as the recipient for this year of the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall '94 prize. The prize, which carries with it a stipend of $250, was established in 1926, and is awarded annually by the deans of Harvard College and the Law School to the best-fitted Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School...
...pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...