Word: among
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletes are among the ten upperclassmen elected in last week's voting to Student Council positions, it was announced last night. Over 1000 Sophomores and Juniors took part in the balloting in which the winners in both classes had wide margins over their next opponents...
...consolation races are run among the crews which failed to earn places in the finals which took place. Wednesday to determine the fifth, sixth, and seventh places in the inter-House standings. Lowell's first crew will thus he given fifth place with Adams sixth and Dunster seventh. The Adams second crew trailed Leverett...
...study; another dwelt on the difficult field of South American relations. Secondly, the Nieman Fellowships have enabled "small-town" editors to gain a perspective on the larger problems of government and international relations. This year there was but one editor of the "country" type; among next year's there will be three. Finally, the year at Harvard has not only given the men a welcome and probably--in spite of all that is said--profitable vacation, but also has enabled them to supplement their practical experience with an objective, critical survey of all newspaper work--thereby improving their reporting...
...establishing the House Plan, President Lowell wanted the Houses to be "mirrors" of the College. They were to contain, among other things, an academic cross-section of both students and faculty. Within recent years, however, the tutorial staffs of the Houses have become increasingly overbalanced in one field or in a group of closely related fields. The result is that certain Houses are becoming identified with special fields of concentration--Winthrop and Sciences, Eliot and History, Dunster and Economics--and the much sought-after academic cross-section is rapidly disappearing...
There are, of course, some things to be gained by a specialized tutorial staff. These include community of interest among a large group of the members of the House, a library well-stocked in one particular field, and the encouragement of such scholastic extra-curricular activities as the Lowell House Scientific Society or the Dunster House Economic Society. If there was not a dominant field of concentration in these Houses then possibly these organizations might not exist. Unfortunately the disadvantages of an unbalanced staff outweigh these benefits...