Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday Evening Post for March 21 appears another article by "The Old Dog", carrying on the attack begun last October against Harvard's educational system. The rush of college life, the limitless capacity of professors to assign impossible tasks, and the apparent "cleverness" of Harvard youth to match their wits against those of the professors and win--it is all too much for "The Old Dog"! He is frankly skeptical and concludes that Harvard youth are not becoming educated...
...obvious solution suggests itself and one that can be made immensely helpful and stimulating. In the first place assign this work of cultural stimulus to the tutors. The tutorial system is now firmly established and could well dispose of this task. Even now the first years of work under the system have little bearing on the divisional exams. In the second place, have the tutorial chairmen of all departments and representatives of the science departments compile a general bibliography of the best books, elementary and advanced, dealing with each branch of human knowledge; and by a few descriptive words...
...Will Assign Rooms in January...
Shortly after the first meeting of the committee all Juniors will be asked to hand in applications for rooms in the Senior Dormitories next year, and the committee will assign the rooms and announce the result of the allotment by the latter part of January...
...exact method of alloting the rooms is still in doubt. Up to last year the committee was accustomed to assign the rooms according to the prominence of the men wishing to occupy them, such men getting the most desirable sultes. An attempt was also made to assign men who were acquainted with each other to rooms in the same building or in the same entry...