Word: student
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arnold has spent most of his life in China, having been made Student Interpreter at the American legation in Peking in 1902, the first person to hold this post. In 1914 he was named Consul-General at Hankow and in the same year gained the position he still holds as Commercial attache...
...Dean's Office recognizes the fact that a student can derive considerable benefit from taking part in extra-curricular activities, providing a proper balance is maintained. The information obtained from the CRIMSON poll should be of especial help in giving for the first time an idea of student opinion regarding the value of outside activities...
...second part asks if a student's activities have been (1) Fun, (2) Worth the time demanded, (3) Detrimental to marks, and (4) More valuable than course work...
...Conant said that Freshmen should be provided "with more accurate knowledge of their own inherent strengths and weaknesses." This can be done by giving Yardlings objective tests as soon as they enter Harvard. Besides aiding the Freshmen themselves, the results of these would supplement the information gathered from a student's life history and scholastic record and round out the adviser's understanding...
...development in this country of intercollegiate conferences on public affairs of which the Yale-Harvard-Princeton conference is a conspicuous example. The years of college training are an invaluable formative period for the younger generation in preparing for the duties and responsibilities of constructive citizenship. Whether upon graduation the student finds his life work in the professions or in the public service he will derive in calculable benefits from contacts and serious discussion of national and international problems with his fellows in other institutions of learning, with men of experience and mature judgement in various walks of life and with...