Word: works
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crowd of thousands, many of whom were waiting their turn. Ensign Nightingale, U. S. N., the pilot, jumped free just before the machine hit the water, while the passenger was caught. One of the University crews was in the vicinity and members of it assisted in the rescue work. Ensign Nightingale during the war was stationed at Bay Shore and later was an instructor at Pansacola, Florida...
...student derives almost no benefit from his fortnightly tutorial conferences, and until the middle of his Senior year looks upon them as an unpleasant and useless extra task to be hurried over and forgotten. Then, too late, he realizes his mistake and sees the connecting and comprehensive values his work has failed to gain...
...unfortunate but an accepted fact that marks have proved the most successful incentive to work. Under the existing system, tutors hand in at the end of the year to the heads of the division their opinions of the ability and work of the men under their supervision. But this annual marking is too intangible and far distant a threat to be of real value in urging the student to look upon his conferences as important...
Would not converting the fortnightly conferences into a compulsory course with a half-point credit for a year's work solve the problem? The plan should certainly be continued as it is most beneficial in linking up a student's single courses and in filling up the gaps in his chosen period. The realization of the fact that he was being closely marked on his work and that he was gaining credit for his efforts would make the average student apply himself to his tutorial conferences. Debates at conferences between students or written essays and reports upon the assigned work...
Americanization will be the principal topic for discussion at the annual dinner and conference of the Social Service Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association to be held in the Trophy Room of the Union at 6.30 o'clock this evening. The Committee has been active in social service work in and around Boston, and has found opportunities for many University volunteers, but the number of workers from the College will have to be more than doubled in order to carry out the new program of Americanization of the foreign-born...