Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduating class a service by publishing Dewayne Kreager's straightforward, clearcut discussion of the job possibilities offered by the Federal government field services. The editors have done a further service by printing Christian Lauritzen's prize-winning essay on "England's Moral Obligation" to France in 1914. When a student produces as good a Sophomore thesis as this, it is pleasing to see it win the recognition of publication
...material will be invaluable to the staff of the Hygiene Department. But it must serve a broader purpose; it must be useful to the University as a whole. The problems faced by the 70 guinea pigs--problems of housing, of curriculum, of study habits--are representative of the entire student body. Nor are these the troubles of cantankerous "problem children," but rather of boys who are meeting their obligations with reasonable success. If the University recognizes the validity of the Study material, if it studies the every-day problems of every-day individuals, it may be able to lubricate those...
Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, and Francis Keppel '38, former president of the Student Council, have received appointments as assistant deans of the College, effective next September, the University announced today...
Keppel, whose new office was unofficially reported in a CRIMSON rumor story on March 28, came to Harvard from Groton School and entered upon an extensive undergraduate career, which included, in addition to his post as head of the Student Council, positions as chairman of the Red Book, president of the Eliot House Committee, secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and member of the Permanent Class Committee...
Last fall thirty-two Freshmen went to the movies and learned how to read. The Freshmen in this case were volunteer students, and the movies, rapidly moving words and phrases projected on a screen. Gaping eyes were taught to scan the printed page, moving quickly over the lines and making fewer stops than had been their habit. The results gained by the "remedial reading class" were immensely significant despite the justly cautious attitude of the directors of the experiment, for not only did the Guinea Pigs increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed...