Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While admitting the value of the plan in its opportunity for qualified students to tackle a job of original scholarship in their final college year, one cannot but wonder if the preliminaries are truly sound. There are dangers inherent in the program. The dismissal of the entire field after only two years of undergraduate study is too likely to be a real dismissal of a mass of fact considered unworthy of full understanding in the face of the more specialized work awaiting the student. Two years can hardly give an undergraduate a mastery of his field sufficient to quality...
Examinations were made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes...
After such a long period as undisputed head of his clan, the Student Vagabond was shocked to discover that a plot had been made to oust him from his position. Yesterday morning the blow fell when one of his own supporters bestowed the title of King of the Vagabonds upon a usurper whose only claim to distinction was his attendance at an examination in a course he was not taking, a vowedly from motives of curiosity. True, the loyal forces suppressed the traitor and his protege, but the Student Vagabond's security demands a public explanation...
...been thought to be an element of chance in the taking of examination; the thrill of the unknown captivates those not too seriously impressed by the marvels of modern academic machinery, but the entire possibilities have-suffered from neglect. The laws of mechanics have governed too closely the college student and he has followed with particular regularity, the well known rule of a body once set in motion in a given direction...
...recent votes of the Faculty concern credit for courses taken at other institutions, credit for extension courses, and the admission of part time students to courses they wish to take as auditors. These changes are made to fit the needs of the students who are unable to take two full and continuous years of work at the school. A student who spends one full, continuous year in residence at the school may receive credit at the discretion of the Administrative Board for eight half courses of work done at another institution...