Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those which have come true include: 1) limited enrolment; 2) the four-course system by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor, and must stand high in these; 3) increase in size and beauty of the physical plant and strengthening of the faculty. But, withal, President Hibben has been most notable for his general and tireless insistence on the intellectual side of the University...
...skeleton, almost complete, was collected in 1928 in the Big White River Badlands, Washington County, South Dakota. It was found in the upper concretionary formation which lies in the upper middle Oreodon zone and has a sufficient number of peculiar characteristics to be deserving of a new specific name...
...careful attention to ways and means of reducing unnecessary failures, improving the quality of instruction, adjusting instruction to the needs of the individual, and treating the Freshman as a whole. Only in this way can we hope to place the Freshman year on a level with that of the upper three years, in which the General Examinations, tutorial system, and now the House plan have done so much to improve the intellectual and social life of the upper classmen...
...meeting every week and a conference of an hour's duration with his instructor every other week. In this way, instruction in Freshman courses might he adjusted to the needs and aptitude of the individual, thus providing for the Freshman within a course some of the advantages given the upper classman within his broader field of concentration under the tutorial system. If the obstacle of expense can be overcome, a wider use of the preceptorial method offers a most promising method of improving instruction in Freshman courses...
Dean Darrach's greatest accomplisment, one of U. S. medicine's greatest executive jobs, was his part in the organization of the $40,000,000 healing, teaching, researching Medical Center in upper Manhattan.* The Medical School last week had 420 regular students, besides a variable number of special students. Teaching and research staff approximated...