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...received word yesterday about the condition of the Yale eleven as it showed itself in the first game with Maine a week ago. We are indebted to the Yale "News" for the information. Although it is rather early for dope on Eli, a little will not be amiss. Therefore TIME OUT acknowledges the favor and prints in full the report from Yale as follows...
...face of all the idealization of the glorious cross section plan for the Houses, perhaps a few considerations on the other side would not be amiss. There is another goal to strive for, which I believe is far more important. This is House personality. The aims of a cross section and of House personality are contradictory. If every House were to have the identical distribution of groups with equal proportions of all types, what chance would be left for House individualism? Little difference would remain, and this would be mostly physical. I am sure that no one wants the Houses...
Viewed largely, the attempt is simply one to de-formalize professional education in the humanities. It assumes a good deal of background on the part of each student who pursues even an elementary "seminar," but this should not be amiss in graduate fields. To such a student, moreover, it offers far more than is possible under the lecture system. A premium is placed upon his own discovery and presentation of facts; inevitably he is given a sense of responsibility and a degree of interest that he does not feel when he is merely being lectured at, collectively. "Being pumped into...
...married her before the airplane fell. She pities him, and all her love is for his virile brother. She shows the innocence and lack of premeditation of her passion by conceiving a child; but before the crippled husband--far too crippled to be a father--finds aught amiss, he awakes one morning, dead. Everything would have been all right had not the perspicacious nurse discovered that an overdose of sleeping powders had killed him. This Nurse Wayland had loved the handsome cripple in her own starved, soulful way. She accuses the adulterous wife, but lives to be convinced that "Chastity...
...public opinion. A group of undergraduates, persuaded of the importance of considering the perplexing problems of our times with an inquiring attitude, has been brought together during the last week to form the Harvard Inquiry. As the first published accounts of it were slightly misleading, it will not be amiss to take this occasion to clarify the origins, aims, and program of the Inquiry...