Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to this test on the related fields that most of the criticisms have arisen. Honors men particularly find it difficult at the conclusion of a year in, which they have had to write a thesis and study a great deal in a special field to cover all the work of their own department not to mention the "related" ones. Review can at best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject...
Various steps might be taken to remedy the present situation it has been proposed by some to abolish the examinations in "related" fields entirely. And substitute certain course requirements which would cover the ground. But this suggestion is hardly in line with the increasing emphasis toward tutorial work as distinguished from mere counting of courses. Another solution might lie in giving these examinations at the conclusion of the Sophomore or Junior year so that men would have a fresher knowledge of the subjects and would have more leisure to prepare for them. While there is much to be said...
...work of this year's Red Book board will be simplified to a great extent by the completion of all Freshman photographs, a service which has been arranged by D. S. Byers '25, Dean of Records. All Freshmen have had photographs made by official orders, and in addition to providing a print for the College records, the photographers will be able to supply the Red Book with...
...which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists in the difficulty of explaining why the gorilla should...
...Pope: work of early and middle period. Professor Hurlbut, Emerson...