Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...use of the 126-year-old building--which was the birthplace of astronomy at Harvard and has been the home of two Harvard presidents--will fill a "long-felt need," Conant said...
...guest-home has six large bedrooms with adjoining baths, as well as a reception room and a small light-housekeeping suite for the guest-house hostess. No meals will be served in the House itself, but its distinguished occupants will have the use of the adjacent Faculty Club...
...schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most efficient and fairest intellectual entrance tests, screening out men whose ability to make use of the College is doubtful...
...same time the College must be awake to the possibilities of new methods of instruction. Some courses, especially in General Education, have already experimented with the use of papers instead of examinations, and more can be done in this area. In any case, examinations should be brought nearer to the ideal of educational usefulness by more careful marking and return of the papers to the students...
...students. In the freshman year this means working through the Union, seeking to extend its facilities for the class. Afterwards it means trying to make the Houses something more than the dining halls and dormitories that, with one or two exceptions, they are now. This implies the use of every possible academic or social device to restore the Houses to their original central purpose. Throughout the individual's four years it means the College's responsibility not to re-emphasize the family and social backgrounds of individuals by its placement of them in dormitories or Houses...