Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport; but M. A. C. has had teams that could...
Sunder Joshi IT.S., will relate his experiences as a foreign student in this country, and C. H. Parker '32, chairman of the Foreign Student Committee will outline the activities of the group. Refreshments and music will follow...
...Foreign Student Committee will continue its council meetings this year, but with some change in their policy. Instead of including only one representative from each country, any students who are interested may attend the meetings, at which topics of international importance will be discussed...
...goal towards which all educators of the modern type seem to be atriving is the development of a close relationship between the professor and the individual student. The adherents to this school of thought must have mingled feelings when they look at the statistics of some of the larger courses given in Harvard College which reveal the extent of mass production in education in its most massive aspects...
With nearly eight hundred men in English A1 and with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...