Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visionary young men went to Manhattan, last week, where they joyously, officially learned they had won the annual Prix de Rome, one in painting, the other in sculpture. This most-coveted of U. S. art-student awards entitles each of them to $1,600 a year, residence and studio, for a three-year period at the American Academy in Rome...
...Harvard reader at least one feature of the Oxford tutorial system, as described by Mr. Frost in this morning's CRIMSON, will present a striking contrast to the predominant Harvard scheme. The majority of Oxford students those who are out for the Hon-ours Degree pursue their studies under the guidance of several tutors, each of whom is a specialist in some phase of the student's general field. The Harvard plan of having a single tutor guide the undergraduate throughout his entire course is the direct aultheals of this English method of instruction...
...tutorial instruction is to be regarded as primarily a plan of comprehensive preparation for a definite set of examinations the Harvard methods is unquestionably the more effective of the two. Tutors can block out a three years course of reading, assigning so much to the student each week, sufficient to cover an entire field of study. If the reading is well planned no dangerous interstices will be left in the student's knowledge; the tutor's comparative ignorance of certain phases of the subject can be covered over by judiciously prepared reading list...
...main function of the tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic...
Also beginning Monday, May 20, the students in the School of Architecture will hold an exhibition in Robinson Hall, showing their work in freehand, life drawing, water colour, etc. On the basis of this display will be awarded the Eugene Dodd Medal which is given annually to the best student in freehand and water colour in a given year...