Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 was made an honorary member, and among those elected to resident membership are Professor H E Rollins Ph. D. '17, and Convad Aiken 11. The new non-resident members include F. E. Parker Jr. '18 of New York, G. W. Thayer '06 of Cleveland, H. S. Morgan '23 of New York, and J. H. G. Pell '26 of Ticonderoga, New York...
...task; acclimatization of an unfamiliar public to a strange order of things. It is fair to say that this initial opposition has been successfully broached and now the word tutorial is significant of a cooperative and not a one-side effort. The second barrier is that stressed by Mr. Aiken--the unification of the results of the tutorial system. As matters stand now the tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient graduate with such force that he cannot help but realize its usefulness. Mere attendance...
...tutorial system in Harvard College is curiously unsystematized," was the charge made by Conrad Aiken '11, poet and novelist. Mr. Aiken, whose latest novel, "Blue Voyage", has just been published, is acting as a tutor-in the English department this year...
...Aiken also expressed his approval of the reading periods which will go into effect this year. He characterized them as a "very sensible thing." "Anything," he said, "tending toward greater flexibility is advantageous, and should work extremely well...
When asked why so many American authors were emigrating to England to live, Mr. Aiken replied that the reason lay in the fact that England is a more intensely civilized country than the United States. "The background of England is infinitely richer," Mr. Aiken went on; "English society is cultured from top to bottom. There is more opportunity for the novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England...