Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raise the academic standards of the college is a wise and necessary procedure; but the lifting pressure should be exerted at the bottom-during the first year-not at the topic. Then too, to use George Ade, "in uplifting, get underneath:" The manner in which the Divisional examinations are made out, and the alrenuousness with which they are marked are, after all, only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves...
When Mr. William H. Geer Director of Physical Education in the University, delivered the opening address at the Eastern District Convention of the American Physical Education Association, held in Atlantic City during the Easter recess, he instigated a movement with such far-reaching results that it remains a topic of interest wherever the subject of Physical Education is discussed...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association to be held at the University today, "The Health of Youth" will be the general topic under discussion. The meeting, which is open to the public, will convene this morning at 9 o'clock for their morning session in Sanders Theatre...
Professor A. B. Lamb G. '03, director of the chemical laboratory, will open the discussion from the chemical point of view. His topic will be "The Chemistry of Burning...
...incumbent must be carrying on his studies under the supervision of the Department of Economics. Each candidate will be called on to write, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by himself from a list, not previously announced, of subjects in economics and political science. The award will be made not later than June 1, without regard to the pecuniary means of the several candidates, but solely on their ability and promise...