Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inability of the three judges to reach an agreement on the choice of two Tercentenary speakers led to an unparalleled decision late last night when it was decided to pick two men from each of the two speaking divisions as semi-finalists and allow them to work on their speeches for a limited period of time...
...belief that the conditions of membership did not make it sufficiently clear that the membership fee is ten dollars a year, with allowance for withdrawal in the middle of the year on no account provided. The issue has become even more confused by the reduction in February of the yearly fee from ten dollars to five dollars. This may be justifiable in order to allow new members to join without undue burden, but, in this case, it seems a little unreasonable to withhold this same privilege from first semester members. The misunderstanding has been enhanced by making provision...
...line with the movement in the Graduate School to allow greater freedom in the choice of subjects in which the Ph.D. degree may be offered. An thropology has widened the fields within the Division itself. Up to the present time the preliminary requirements for the general oral examination have been the same for all candidates...
...remedy for this situation would be to require either History 1 or Government 1 and correlation in either History or Government. This would eliminate one extra course in the field and allow men to take an additional economics course. In this way their conception of the field would be strengthened and their correlation would have more meaning than at present...
...second point brought up is the overworking of tutors due to the number of concentrators in the field. Obviously this is a definite fault and it brings up the question of the financing of the tutorial system. Either the Department's budget will have to be increased to allow for more tutors or the tutorial system will have to be modified so as to include only the honors students. Herein lies Harvard's chief problem for the moment and for the years to come. A definite decision will have to be made on this point within the next few years...