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...Leighton in his annual report, besides directing attention to the deficiencies of the present Freshman adviser system, has called for more individual instruction and special attention for the first year men, not only through more frequent conferences with the advisers, but also by means of decreasing the size of the sections in the elementary courses...
...little practice in intelligent discussion that he is hampered in his future work. Mr. Leighton points out that in some sections there are as many as fifty and the average number is twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work...
...Freshman year, and in order that the first year men may receive more individual instruction, economic factors, at least in the introductory courses, should be overlooked to the extent of cutting down the larger sections so that none have a roll of more than twenty-five. By more frequent conferences with the advisers and the diminishing of the size of the sections more adequate preparation for an intelligent use of the tutorial system is assured...
Like all popular leaders, War Man Klim pays frequent lip service to Peace...
Harvard's Medical School, in the U. S. topflight with Columbia's, Cornell's, Johns Hopkins', may expect a friendly eye from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...