Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are restricted only to taking three courses in divisions other than their field of main interest. Furthermore, all general college curriculum requirements have been abolished except that of a course in English composition. New emphasis is now being placed upon the requirements of the department in which the student majors, under plans similarly in use at Harvard...
Charles Lester Bickel, A.B. William Jewell College, 1927, at present a graduate student in Chemistry at Harvard; and Russell Lowell Daussat, at present of Louisiana State University, graduate S.B. and M.S. of Louisiana State College, have been awarded posts as Austin Teaching Fellows in Chemistry for the year...
Obviously, the plan offers a broad range for attending classes in which the student is interested only in the lecture for the day but would not care to register for the entire course. In this way he obtains from various courses the bits of knowledge which he desires in order to complete or fill in his general course...
...Student Vagabond" and "The Third Elective" are doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however...
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...