Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended. Behind the walls of the much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will not be published for four...
Among the speakers were: Professor O. M. Sprague, professor of Banking and Finance at Harvard; Dr. George H. Gallup, president of the American Institute of Public Opinion; Elmo Roper, president of the Market Survey Concern of Elmo Roper; and George B. Hotchkiss professor of Marketing at New York University...
Worst of the problem children which harass a college curriculum are the survey courses, and at Harvard they are holy terrors. Through the years they have constantly grown until today they tend, because of their own unmanageable hugeness, to fall apart into disunified sections whose only point of similarity is subject material...
Caught at the core of this rotten situation, students struggle to get into an "easy" section whose instructor gives a high percentage of A's and B's. Far too many survey courses have little check on that "easy" man or on his counterpart, the "hard" one. Marking is up to the discretion of the instructor, and since the personal equation is inevitable, rank injustice and disunity result...
...immediate future, the University should institute an investigation of the tutoring schools which now exist in the Square. This investigation should be an inquiry into the methods which are now used by the cram bureaus, a survey of whether or not they comply to the standards of legitimate tutoring. If they do, they should be placed on an approved list and recommended to all students. If not, they should be summarily blacklisted, and any students who frequent them or use their products should be placed upon probation. The Crimson feels confident that, with few exceptions, such an investigation portends...