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Approximately 1000 Freshmen are expected to enroll between 10 and 5 o'clock as secondary school graduates from all parts of the United States enter a week's whirl of conferences and meetings which will acquaint them with their new student life...
Last January it was announced that Phillips Brooks House was considering the appointment of a personnel officer, to cope with some of the problems presented by mal-adjusted students. In May the appointment of Shafer Williams '32, a graduate divinity student was announced, and in order better to acquaint students, new and old with the work of this office, the CRIMSON publishes the following article, gathered from official sources in Phillips Brooks House...
...book or the conscience is weak, and the invitation to regress to the age of incipient maturity must be regretfully declined. For these it is that the annual meetings of the several Harvard Clubs are designed. These meetings bring together men with a great mutual bond, they serve to acquaint graduates of the University everywhere with the progress that is being made in Cambridge and with the changes that time is slowly effecting along the banks of the Charles. If for no other reason than to enable Harvard men to see and hear the President and the leaders...
...practical rather than theoretical. Especially significant is its inclusion of a course in the actualities of politics. "Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
...Every student is required to frame his schedule of courses in his major subject in consultation with the department concerned. He must present to the class officer evidence that he has satisfactorily fulfilled this preliminary requirement before he submits his complete schedule of work for final approval. He should acquaint himself fully with all requirements of the department of his major study, with regard not merely to his immediate choices of Junior courses, but to the plan of his entire work in preparation for the departmental examinations at the close of his Senior year. These departmental examinations, required of every...