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...proposed to improve the technical instruction and to broaden even further the scope of this study. Other courses adapted to the needs of students in city planning as general education or specific preparation for their work will be arranged with the cooperation of other departments of Harvard University, and students will be enabled to secure the assistance of experts in allied fields. Professors of fine arts, history, economic history, government, particularly municipal and state government, public finance, and public utilities, will open to the students of the new School courses which bear upon city planning or carry further in some...
...perfectly justified outcry that has arisen from the large number of students affected by this change has drawn attention to both the clerical inefficiency of the department and the unadvisability of having any divisional examinations so soon in the fall that a student has only time to register and attend the first meetings of his class before he finds himself taking a series of examinations. The difficulties which have arisen from a haphazard method of notification can easily be eliminated in the future but the question of whether the dates of the examinations have been wisely set raises a more...
...contribution of the Student Council toward the expense of taking the University Band to Michigan is a gesture of hospitality and a surety for finer relationships between Universities of East and West that should bring considerable satisfaction to the body of Harvard undergraduates and graduates. Limited by a heavy program of expenditure the H. A. A. is obviously incapable of suffering the total cost of the undertaking, amounting to approximately $4,000. Through the aid of the Student Council, and the private gifts of certain influential Chicago graduates who have already contributed $500, Western graduates and the University at home...
Tonight in the Faculty Room of University Hall the Student Council will hold its first meeting of the year for the purpose of organizing the fall program, and electing members to fill the seats left vacant owing to the scholastic difficulties of some councilmen...
...salaries of professors and the rising fees for tuition. It is not often that the same correspondent protests against both evils, at any rate in the same letter. The connection between them is too obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force...