Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are available at the Student Employment Office positions in sales, foreign trade, advertising, investment banking, actuarial work, and other lines, for which there have not been sufficient applicants. New openings have just been listed...
There are available at the Student Employment Office positions in sales, foreign trade, advertising, investment banking, actuarial work, and other lines, for which there have not been sufficient applicants. New openings have just been listed...
Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...
...such fields as history, philosophy, or even literature, the reverse is certainly true of many other departments of study. Lectures in the fine arts, laboratory work in the sciences, discussion groups in mathematics or economic theory can scarcely be supplanted by independent reading on the part of the student...
...should, furthermore, be remembered that the swing from course to tutorial work is not likely to benefit any one but honors candidates. The student who has not sufficient scholastic ambition to try for honors will but rarely find a larger opportunity for unprescribed work of advantage...