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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Then take the field of history. Don't you think the study ought to be limited to the great events of the current year? Leak Investigation 1, for example, ought to be a very popular course. Since it has been proved that history never repeats itself, it is ridiculous to study events of the past. The history of events previous to 1900 should be thrown out of the curriculum, if for no other reason than that it unquestionably overtaxes the undergraduate's memory--already sufficiently strained in keeping his tea dance engagements in proper order...
This same criticism can be registered with equal force against the undergraduate system of study. Too much memory work and too little independent thinking are facts that are readily observable. Only a few weeks ago Professor Channing urged his students not to take notes on outside reading but to grasp the essentials of the reading as they went along...
...three hours in length. The examinations will extend over a ten day period, from Monday, April 23, to Wednesday, May 2. A fee of $3 is charged for each make-up examination and is payable at the Bursar's Office. The attention of members of the University intending to take a make-up examination is called to the following regulations...
Make-up mid-year examinations are held for such students as have satisfied the Recorder that their absence from the regular mid-year examinations was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatsover. No student is permitted to come late to an examination...
Members of the Dramatic Club will take part in "The Spirit of Poland," a play for Polish relief, in Jordan Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is in five acts, written by Miss Dorothea Murray Hughes, a Radcliffe graduate, is given in aid of the Polish children, and the proceeds will go to the Sienkiewicz fund, and will be cabled at once to Poland, where they will be distributed by the agents of the Polish relief committee. It is being given under the auspices of the "Friends of Poland" of which Mme. Szumowska Adamowska is president...