Word: works
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will...
Charles Edward Masters '21 of Newton Centre was elected captain of the University soccer team yesterday at a meeting of the members of the squad, following the taking of the picture. Masters has played an excellent game at right half-back throughout the year, and his clever defensive work has been instrumental in keeping down the opponents' scores...
...advantages at which it aims. One of its main purposes--to give the student more freedom in his studies and a chance to carry on a certain amount of individual investigation--has been entirely missed, because the faculty has failed to provide any time in which the extra work may be done...
Since the establishment of the system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
...return to the high school theory of nothing but assigned lessons, or it must put the tutorial system on a sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible under the present system. But the ever-increasing number of students...