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...students harassed by the absurdities of compulsory class attendance, irrelevant examination questions, and low-voltage lectures. But to visualize it as an easy scheme of collegiate existence is to make a most vital mistake. Students in our own department of Social Institutions will declare that the freedom of scope which their individual projects allow them, that the sense of achievement which they hope to acquire from reaching conclusions through their own industry instead of memorizing the erudition of others, and the independence of mind and method which may come to be theirs, are invaluable experiences. But they will all rise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Forward Step | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Friday, March 6, and Saturday March 7, the Fourth annual League of Nations Model Assembly Council of New England Colleges will convene at Wellesley College. The meeting this year is to be more complex in organization than any of the preceding ones, which were chiefly preparatory in scope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL ASSEMBLY ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEXT MEETING | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Professor Channing's most important work was done in the field of American History in which his volumes are considered as classics. The recognition of the excellence and comprehensive scope of his six volume series was accorded him in 1925 by the Pulitzer prize committee. Most schoolboys are familiar with his students' histories and college students are certain to use his more advanced texts in American History. Professor Channing's substantial contributions to history will not soon be forgotten nor will the memory of the man himself soon become dim among his associates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDWARD CHANNING | 1/8/1931 | See Source »

...From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand"-the Hymnal's measure of distance; not so TIME'S who adds many more miles to its scope; also the air and the depths of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Philosophy of Evolution is a course which offers to the student a systemized survey of the more important theories of Evolution, historical and modern. It covers a wide scope of information, but the main points, how-ever far reaching are linked together in an interesting way by the instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confidential Guide to Courses | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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