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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor and Manager The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIMON SAYS-- | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...Bulletin itself, apparently, sees clearly enough. Besides speaking for the undergraduates, it takes the voice of the alumni, the faculty, and even the social clubs, and makes them all join in one grand assent. On what authority it says these things, except that of habit, it does not publish. The CRIMSON has never pretended to reflect a general undergraduate opinion, but its editors believe that they are correct in suggesting that undergraduate opinion would not choose to be interpreted by such a conformist medium as The Bulletin. The latest essay of that paper is merely another expression of that tacit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIMON SAYS-- | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...Professor Hall's letter apparently led some of the Boston newspapers to say that a large proportion of the Harvard Faculty, the undergraduates, and the alumni were hostile to the "house plan." Now, the Bulletin is in a position where it can form a reasonably sound judgment about the opinions of Harvard men, young and old. We are certain that the opposition to the new project, from any source, is inconsiderable, and that such as exists is based on unfamiliarity with the enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Water's Fine" | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they feared it might lead to their extinction, have changed their views. We have no doubt that discussion and the spreading of information will remove even the slight opposition which now exists in any quarter. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Water's Fine" | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

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