Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Extensive alterations in the Student Advisory system are recommended in the report now being prepared by T. H. Eliot '28, Chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. The report will be submitted to the Student Council after further conferences between the Committee chairman, Dean A. C. Hanford, and Mitchell Gratwick '22 and W. I. Nichols '26, the Freshman Deans...
...large amount of ground in the minimum of time. For many institutions without research bureaus or special libraries containing a wide variety of source-material it is the only practical plan. The lecture text-book method, however, if used exclusively in government has certain advantages, especially for advanced students. It is not the most effective method for stimulating independent thinking, critical analysis of material, or through mental work on the part of the student. His thinking is done largely for him by the lecturer or text-book writer who presents the material in predigested form...
...organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides. In some of the cases the decision arrived at has been given and the student is asked whether or not he believes it was a sound one and the reason for his opinion. In others the facts are presented and the student is expected to work out a possible solution by applying the principles which have been developed from the lectures, text-books, and other...
...mental repression of youth; each man is an individual and his particular psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry into the "emotional turmoil" of the student, is the most effective solution to what will always be a problem, whether recognized or not, in any University or College...
...been in the first Freshman boat, a year later in the Second University crew, and last spring he rowed against Yale in the first University shell. He was president of his class in its Sophomore year and now is president of the Philips Brooks House and the Student Council...