Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convenience with which so much of human knowledge is presented by merely "giving a course" has too frequently blinded educational authorities to the fact that the implications of a subject fully compare in importance with the appealing neatness which it presents when served up by one instructor and a set reading list. Only recently has the realizations that the minds of college students were becoming mere collections of pigeon-holed information, notable as much for the wide open spaces between as for the remarkable development of isolated subdivisions, forced educators towards efforts at integration...
Even after courses have been grouped together into fields the study of which is carefully supervised by department heads and tutors, there still remains the necessity of development from within the courses themselves. Only when the directors of individual courses realize that where their subject impinges upon another related one, it there also interlocks with it, can education really be said to possess proper coherence...
...cannot appropriation be made subject to such distribution as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine after thorough investigation; part for Coast Guard, part for customs, part especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals...
...propositions which the Harvard teams will support in the Spring trip have also been determined by the Council. The most popular is the following subject: "Resolved, That modern woman is a curse." The other two subjects are: "Resolved, That 'loyalty' is the curse of the American college," and "Resolved, That the present jury system should be abolished." These subjects were chosen after much discussion on the part of the Council, which determined the subjects for all the coming debates at a recent meeting
...William H. Buckler, D, Phil. Oxon., will give a lecture at the Fogg Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture, which is open to the public, will be on the subject of "The Education of Anna Comnena...