Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valued counsellor in the affairs of the University, his characteristic influence was as he would have wished it upon the religious life of the place. His earlier residence as a clergyman in Boston had made him familiar with our situation. It was, however, his great work as bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Philippines from 1901 to 1918, and then his term as chief of the Chaplain Service of the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918-1919, his long conflict with the opium traffic, his enthusiastic interest in international affairs, which made the students feel...
This morning, the men will take motion pictures of the Reading Room. In order to get a record of undergraduate activity during the Reading Period, the picture will be taken between 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock. Ten of the large floodlights will be used for this work...
...doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however, by authorities...
...kind of course which will probably be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum. So-called "snap courses" will take the form of lectures at which there will be no academic requirement other than punctiliousness in attending. Half credit only will be given for such courses but no outside work will be necessary...
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...