Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union on Saturday, March 12, at 6 o'clock. Mr. George S. Rice '70, president of the association and member of the Public Service Commission of New York, will act as toastmaster. Mr. C. P. Steinmetx h.'02, of the General Electric Company of Schenectady, N. Y., Mr. J. R. Freeman, of Providence, R. I., and Mr. C. W. Baker '84, editor of the Engineering News, will speak...
...undertaken by the University alone, a commission was organized composed of the following institutions: Harvard University, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simmons College, Tufts College, Wellesley College, Boston College, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The officers of this commission will, in co-operation, offer a carefully prepared general scheme of courses taking as a nucleus those now being given at the Lowell Institute and at the Summer School. The courses will be given primarily for teachers or other persons engaged in advanced work, but will be conducted in so far as possible like the parallel ones which are given...
...some years past the various institutions of learning about Boston have been in the custom of giving outside courses of instruction for the benefit of the general public. These courses have now become so numerous and important as to conflict in some degree, and it has been found expedient to co-ordinate them under a common head. By grouping the courses together with one supervising body, their efficiency will be tremendously increased and they will form a connected program of study. It will furthermore enable those enrolled under the new system to count all their courses towards a new degree...
Many courses of study in the College devote two hours a week to lectures, and a third hour to section meetings in which some test is given on the prescribed reading. Though this plan is, in itself, most excellent, as applied to courses in general it is open to one serious objection, which might easily be removed by some simple but uniform regulation. At present, a large majority of courses, especially in the Department of History and Political Science, devote the early part of the week to lectures and hold their conferences on Friday or Saturday. Thus a great many...
...remedy for this halting system of study is to secure a more even distribution of the work by scattering the conferences throughout the week; and in order that this rearrangement be uniform, it should be made under the supervision of the Recorder. This could hardly fail to improve the general level of the work, for it would mean the substitution of a constant pressure of study for the present alternating periods of idleness and congestion...