Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the outset of his Presidency at Harvard, in 1909, Lawrence Lowell set his face steadfastly against all this. While still allowing a considerable freedom of election, so that education remained adequately comprehensive, his method required the student to group and organize the major portion of his studies within a single field. It was a step toward the famous "honour schools" of the English universities, in which the student concentrates upon the classics, history, English language and literature, or any one of half a dozen general subjects. A similar step already had been taken in many American universities...
...general examination will crown and fortify this group system. As President Lowell says, the plan "has attracted wide attention, and would seem to be a notable advance in American educational methods." Hitherto, under both the elective system and the ancient curriculum, the examinations have been by separate course, the paper being set by the professor in each of them, and the student being held responsible mainly for such knowledge only as had been imparted in the lectures. They were largely tests of memory, and were scattered through the four years of undergraduate life. As a system it was identical with...
Twenty-five men have been awarded Deturs at Harvard College on the basis of last year's academic work. Deturs are books given as prizes to men who for the first time in their college course have achieved a position in the first group of scholars...
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...third group is made up of students to whom financial aid has been awarded on grounds of special claim...