Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complete Educational Survey...
...most encouraging aspect of the University is its unquestionable desire to improve. With a vast field in which to work, Penn has undertaken an Educational Survey, designed to evaluate every department, school, and feature of university life. Several hundred thousand dollars and 260 men are involved in the study...
Sixty of these men are from outside the University; all of them are educators and professional men with a confidence in the University of Pennsylvania. They do not hold this faith alone, for the Survey is being financed by grants from seven foundations...
Such is only a very rapid survey of some of the more pressing needs of the College. Each deserves, and later will find, separate treatment. But seen even thus summarily the list of needs seems to me unmistakably to indicate the necessity for quickened concern for the well-being of Harvard College. Indeed it is more than time for those who care for Harvard College as the first and still one of the most vigorous practitioners of collegiate learning in America now to increase the strength of the College for its great work in undergraduate education...
Nevertheless, in a general survey on Wigglesworth Hall last night it appeared that very few residents had been informed about the new night watchman in G-entry. Lowell House students provided the only exception to this uninformed status, since Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, had sent a letter to all his students informing them of the new watchmen...