Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more days, and the little blue devils will begin to rampage. Whether or not students are ready for examinations, a large group of professors are. They are primed to make this year's tests a very special set. They will try to concoct something relatively new for Harvard, tutoring-proof examinations and a tutoring-proof system of grading. Of course, they won't succeed entirely--but the ingenuity of a dozen or so Harvard professors should not be under-rated. And for the incredulous student, it would be better to believe now than later...
Strictly speaking, no one should object to this new tack taken by the professors. Nothing could be more fair. There is no invalid discrimination. The only ones who are hit are those who tutor. The student who has honestly tried and still is not able to think with originality on an examination should--hard as this may seem--get a low grade anyway. All others are not affected, for the exams are not made harder, but only more thought-provoking...
...first time is its history producing a play on its own power, the Student Union tomorrow night will present Mare Bilitzstein's musical drama "The Cradle Will Rock" in Banders Theatre at 8:30 o'clock...
...benefit of experience to the college curriculum. A new element--the combination of the text book with actual reality--broadens and enriches studies which have sended to sterility. The examples of Harvard, Manhattanville, Radcliffe and Brown are a challenge to other colleges. With its service both to the student and to the community, the Undergraduate Faculty should find a useful place on campuses throughout the nation...
...will not be easy to separate black from white," the editorial says. "No one wants to cut off from able and honorable students, graduate or undergraduate, the opportunity to earn money by tutoring that is innocent, helpful, and consonant with the Harvard emphasis on self-education. No one wants to prevent a student who neds help from getting...