Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more evident differences between the task which confronted President Lowell and the task which will confront President Conant in the fall. The physical development of Harvard is now an accomplished fact: the House Plan and the tutorial system have reached a stage in their existence where any further treatment is a matter of small refinements and revision of detail. To a large extent, the new President's work will consist of just such minor adjustments; to him has descended the difficult task of rounding off the edges, and of reconciling the conflicts presented by the many innovations which have been...
...President will have to solve is that of the method of attack on the system of course examinations. This solution may be attained by one of two methods: there may be a further refinement of the tutorial system, and improvements in the examinations themselves; or there may be drastic treatment by a swing in the direction of the Continental method, such as that which took place at Chicago. A reorganization of the educational machinery of this kind is an advance sorely needed, and a labour worthy the talents of the next president...
Within the past few weeks the Harvard Liberal Club has received from your columns treatment that is gratuitously unfair and patently stupid...
...present day." The subject is roughly divided into three sections: Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern, which, with Ancient treated by 1c, survey the entire history of Art. In the course as it is now compressed into one half year, each of these divisions is accorded a very brief treatment, inadequate for concentrators in the field...
...courses would compete with the old 1a and 1b on the history of architecture, now prerequisite in the School of Architecture, is not insurmountable 1a and 1b are scarcely more detailed than 1d, and the proposed courses, although enlarged by two more arts in scope, might easily give a treatment of the history of architecture as adequate as that now offered. Moreover, requiring architecture men to learn the fundamentals of other arts as background would have a broadening effect. Fine Arts 1d might serve a useful role in providing an artistic introduction for those about to travel to Europe...