Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exacting schedule of work which falls to the lot of every medical student, little time is left for extra-curricular activities. It has been the aim of the Medical School Society, therefore, to vary the daily routine of Medical School life by opportunities for recreation in the true sense of the word rather than to offer opportunities for further work in social and religious service, although the Society recognizes the value of such work and takes a census of each entering class with that in view...
...advent of the dormitory with its communal life has done away with the old Student's Room at the school which used to be the center of activity for the students and of service for the Phillips Brooks House Association. This has resulted in two major groups of students: those who live in the dormitory and those who do not. So far as possible the committee has tried to serve both groups. The temporary lounging room at the school for the students living outside has been provided with magazines so far as possible. At the dormitory, also, the committee...
...Dental School Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association has had for its aim this year the promotion of a social atmosphere in the Dental School where there was little opportunity for social life. Due to the fact that the student body was very small in numbers, this work was directed mainly among the new men. With this in mind, the committee, made up of the secretary, with William Malerick, G. Earl Thompson, William Wiley, and David Weisberger, looked after the new men and saw that they became acquainted with each other, and the other students in the school...
April is here, Easter is almost a reality, vacation is in sight; and professor, wishing to sweeten that one little week all the more by contrast, fill these remaining few days of labor to capacity. But even the student up to his neck in examinations is aroused from that apathetic condition by the cheerful activity of the Democratic Club, whose busy members shame the moans of the weary by their energy. For has not presidential year rolled around, bringing balm to reporters, Democrats to Houston, and raisons d'etre to undergraduate political clubs...
...have changed our method in two ways. We are using a new system of instruction that amounts to the abandonment of the case system. This may be called the situation method, for we endeavor to place the student in a position covering many cases, where he will frequently find himself in practice, and also to bring to bear on the situation various rules he will need. Cases are used only to give specific illustrations of a given position. This may give a better preparation for actual practice than memorizing great numbers of individual cases and names...