Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the Student Advisory system is still failing to accomplish all that has been hoped of it has, however, been recognized by this year's committee, and radical changes have again been suggested for its future operation...
...years ago the steadily increasing dissatisfaction with the Student Advisory system then in force resulted in a complete revision of its major features. The number of advisers was reduced to seventy-five; all the advisory force was to be picked from the Junior and Sophomore classes instead of from the Senior; and each advisee was given a group of Freshmen, who were to be the subjects of personal visits and written analyses...
...plan of assigning Freshmen to uperclass advisers was put into practice before the present board of Freshman faculty advisers was instituted. The faculty adviser has taken over many of the functions of the original student adviser; the mass of information given Freshmen on their arrival in Cambridge through circulars and lectures has further reduced the undergraduate adviser's importance...
...examination is open to all undergraduates in Harvard College and no previous registration is required. This year there will be two parts to the examination. There will be one question on a general subject, and also an essay question on special topics. It is a test of the student's knowledge of facts and his understanding of political, social, and economical problems. Prizes of $500, $150, $75, and $25 will be awarded to the successful contestants...
...nature of much criticism of America and her educational methods. The competence of the Englishman to judge a national problem of education that has neither parallel nor similarity throughout the world, is seriously to be questioned. It is fortuitously true in the present instance that an English student who spent a year at Princeton has signified faith in an achieved progress that seventy-five years before could only be hoped for by another Englishman who was, to say the least, conservative in his hopes...