Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once they have left Copenhagen they intend to cover in part Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and venture into Germany. Engagements have been made to do a large number of various kinds of jobs including theatre contracts, convention work, and dance music all along...
Here at Harvard a scholarship has become a prize to be obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books...
This morning at 9:15 o'clock those men taking Government I will complete their year's work in the course by taking the final examination. And yet for a large number of these men this examination will have no real effect on the mark they receive for the course...
...Stanford in 1925 a movement was begun that in a way makes amends for the cut and dried aspect of the lock-step system. Under the title, The Independent Study Plan, a means is offered whereby the student may use his own initiative in his university work. The plan is open to students of exceptional qualifications at the beginning of their junior or senior years...
Dartmouth college has instituted a plan for a very few of its ranking seniors that goes to the extreme in giving the student freedom in his educational work. Those chosen to follow the plan will not pay tuition, will not attend classes if they do not wish to attend, and will not be required to take any examinations. In short they will be allowed to follow the intellectual life at Dartmouth as they see fit. This would be the ideal in education, but unfortunately few students would be strong enough to follow that plan and get anything from their university...