Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because he was not an architect, he would not allow his title to be other than Acting Supervising Architect and, as such, his name appears on some 2,000 Federal cornerstones...
...system, as a system, is practically perfect, but the day when education can be imparted exclusively by a system has not yet arrived. An established framework is a necessity to every well organized course but it should have enough apertures to allow the student to get a view of the whole field which the course is supposed to cover...
Probably the best way for a student to learn something about the Houses would be to allow him the privilege of taking several meals in the various units during the second half year upon the invitation of some resident. If the Freshmen were allowed to take fourteen meals in the Houses this would give them an opportunity to visit each twice. The difference of eight dollars and eight dollars and a half in the board charges at the Union and the Houses only means a loss of two cents a meal and only a maximum of a few hundred dollars...
Censorship at Harvard has always been non-existent. The University has seen fit to allow students through newspapers and periodicals to express their views, with the one reservation that the facts and presentation be accurate. The University has not found the system of complete freedom of speech embarrassment. On the contrary suggestions of students have always been given consideration and often found valuable...
These are but a few suggestions to solve the vexing problem of the distribution of courses outside a student's field. While they do not offer a perfect solution, they seem as satisfactory as any. Many there are who feel it wise to allow a student four courses and tell him he may take any four he chooses without regard to subjects at all. This does not seem acceptable with the present curriculum. The tendency might well be to take four snap courses which would not give one a semblance of what is optimistically called a rounded education. It seems...