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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real reason why the better students dislike "paternalism" is because the teachers do all the work in the college instead of merely directing it, as they do in the graduate schools. The plea for the extension of "honors" courses, likewise, is a plea for the development of individual initiative and more advanced investigation; the motive is exactly the same as that of graduate work. The exceptional student however, should be given the opportunity to take "honors" courses. This means the expenditure of more money. The type of man the faculty requires to handle such work is hard to find...
...viscerate the vicious viper Evolution (TIME, Apr. 6), the state of Tennessee, last week, rolled up it's sleeves for a trial swing. The viper was placed in a convenient viscerating position by one George W. Rappleyea, business man, who complained that one J. T. Scopes, Science teacher in the Rhea High School (Dayton), had "taught Evolution." The charge particularized that Teacher...
...professorships and two changes in the faculty were announced by the University last night. Professor G. P. Baxter '96, teacher of chemistry in the University since 1897, has been named as the first incumbent of a new chair in chemical research. The professorship has just recently been created by T. W. Lamont '92, and Professor Baxter will be the first to hold...
Professor George H. Chase '96, Hudson Professor of Archaeology since the establishment of that chair in 1916, and teacher at the University since 1901, has been named Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to succeed Dean Lowes in September, 1925, Professor Chase, during this second half year, has been Acting Dean of the College in the absence of Dean Greenough, who is abroad, Professor Chase has been for some time Curator of Classical Antiquities at the University...
This total lack of interest in a project that in theory at least is highly commendable is most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched...