Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the visiting committee, who is a member of the North Shore Garden Club, which is interested in the work of the Garden and has contributed to its work, said that "we have always had hard sledding to get funds. The University has always given us $3000 yearly to pay off the debt of the Garden, and we have raised $5000 to carry on the work. Last spring the University, after the debt had been paid, would not continue to contribute their $3000 to the Garden any more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members...
...possible jobs, what provision is made to take care of college graduates, and the attitude of employers in general to new men. The director is planning to make a trip later in the year through the Middle Atlantic States and the Middle West to do the same type of work. Here he will cooperate with the committees which have already been established in many of the local Harvard Clubs, and expects to establish similar connections...
...meetings at Harvard of Summer School directors from all over the country, shows the importance that is being attached to this means of widening the opportunity for study of countless students who find it impossible to condense this work into the winter months...
...reading period is going into its third year, many of the old abuses are fortunately being slowly obliterated. The fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...
Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...