Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same order. And not only do the section men assert their independence in the matter of order, but they also differ in their exams and teaching technique. On the one hand there are men who make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius can learn under any system, but for the average student the question in class is the most important single factor in making the subject understandable...
Certainly this situation is unsatisfactory; more than that, it is unfair. There is still an implicit contractual agreement between student and teacher; for his course fee the undergraduate is still entitled to demand a certain amount of instruction in sections as distinguished from lectures. Only by limiting the freedom in which the Math A instructors now revel can the Mathematics Department effectively fulfill its duty to the average Math student...
Success in the Georgian Cafeteria strike was celebrated at a Student Union Labor Committee meeting held in the Phillips Brooks House on Saturday at 12 o'clock. Ernest J. Simmons '26, assistant professor of English, and president of the Teachers' Union, was among the speakers...
Simmons was much pleased with the results of the strike. He commented: "The student activities were excellent experience for the committee members in studying actual union relations...
Joseph Stefant, secretary of Local 136, spoke on the concluded terms of the agreement and gave the running history of the strike. Arthur Mason, representative of the workers, thanked the Student Union for their aid in effecting the victory of the cafeteria's employees. He welcomed the event as a stride toward cooperation between town and students...