Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England colleges, F. E. Cummings '30, David Guarnaccia '29, V. L. Hennessy '30, R. P. Porter '29, and C. A. Pratt '28, are expected to be the only undergraduate trackmen from Harvard. A. H. Miller '27, former football and track luminary in the University, and now a student in the Law School, will also don togs with the Boston runners...
...customary four hour examinations upon which the entire year's work at the Law School depends, are apparently regarded as insufficient test to qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through...
Dean Mitchell believes that the superior intellectual background of the Oxford man entities him to the privilege of scholar's freedom while the American student "needs the give and take of the recitation room and the careful, almost daily, guidance and supervision, not of one instructor but of several." Such treatment does not go to the core of difficulty which lies in the smattering methods of the secondary schools. These have, in turn been foisted on the school by the college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes the distributive in college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes...
...plumbed deeper that this in his field of special interest, can he be placed fully upon his own in academic responsibility. But he must be gives "cause and will and strength and means to don't," even if he never attains the intellectual precocity of the English student. He must have time, as well as incentive, to study alone. A single self-won thought will proclaim itself within him worth all the chalk talks of all the classrooms...
...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...