Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early last summer the Division of Anthropology began to study films sent to the Museum by the Pathe Exchange, to determine whether the material was suitable for classroom use. From films such as "Nanook" for example, it was found that valuable illustrative material dealing with the physical types and customs of the Eskimos could be gained...
...addition to the books which will be placed on the shelves of Widener Library for use during the Reading Period, the Economics Department has arranged with the Cooperative Society to have the less expensive volumes available for those who wish to have their own copies...
Doubtless a number of students will feel somewhat lost the first time that the sustaining hand of supervision is with drawn. But if university men, particularly the upper classmen most affected, cannot use a two or three week period of reading to advantage after the subjects have been opened up to them by lectures or by tutorial conferences, there is manifestly something stultifying in our former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part...
...Government has generally accepted as a working formula, therefore, the addition of about a third to the ordinary course assignments, or perhaps a half in cases where the readings assigned are of a somewhat lighter nature than those ordinarily given. Lists of the books required for especially heavy use, have been restricted as much as possible to whole volumes. These lists and the assignments have been prepared in the way which is suggested by the Library Committee and by the Committee on Instructions, and which Dean Hanford has clearly outlined in his general exposition of the plan...
...most salient generalization to be derived from Dean Hanford's thorough exposition of the conduct of the imminent Reading Periods is that the Faculty has "confidence in the ability of the student and in his desire to use the opportunities well." This, with the general undergraduate attitude eagerness to test the experiment and at least an open mind toward its possible results--is an encouraging augur for what must be admitted is an unknown field. Whatever be the outcome of the Period it will have been based on a mutual understanding of both Faculty and students. Each realizes that there...