Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey, or vegetable soup course, is probably the greatest of these. Such courses as Government 1 are harmful to the student in three ways. They give him the blissful illusion, common among undergraduates at the University of Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener...
...excellent plan, and one essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry through Harvard into life. As the Freshman suffers, society...
Squyres, in referring to the discovery of a swastika on the wall of Memorial Hall Saturday, declared that it could not have been a mere student prank but a serious warning that Nazism is flourishing...
...members, requires no more than an ability to show that one or more ancestors bore arms against George III. Belonging to the organization is a matter of considerably more moment. In addition to its routine political activities of viewing with alarm, the D. A. R. runs innumerable pilgrimages, student loan plans, charities, better citizenship contests, scholarships, historical shrines and exhibits...
Significant was Dr. Thurstone's discovery that the work people like to do is likely to correspond with their particular mental abilities. One of his students who ranked high in verbal abilities planned to go into advertising and writing, while a student who scored high in perception but low in solving problems wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted...