Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commonplace that there has been for the past few years at Harvard a tendency to reduce course requirements and to place academic responsibility upon the student without demanding too frequent accounts of his stewardship. But in the midst of this movement there still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written...
...following article is the sixth of a series written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, University Secretary for Student Employment, on the various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates...
...role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...
...committee of five to cooperate with the University authorities on the House Plan has been appointed by A. E. French '29, president of the Student Council. The group, consisting of W. R. Harper '30, G. L. Lewis '30, E. W. Sexton '29, A. R. Sweezy '29, and B. H. Ticknor '31 are to discuss with President Lowell, Dean Hanford, and Professors C. N. Greenough '98 and J. L. Coolidge '95 details of the new arrangements...
...celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...