Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some sort is desirable is the manner with which Faculty advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that...
...course, be argued that concentration does not begin in earnest until the sophomore year anyway, and that the freshman has plenty of time to look around, himself, before commencing. As a matter of fact, this theory of the drifting freshman coming to a safe mooring by his second year is both dangerous and fallacious. It is fallacious because nineteenths of the first-year men have no more real understanding of the purposes and potentialities of a Harvard education in June than, they had in September. It is dangerous because it may involve an irreparable loss of time and the self...
...would appear, perhaps, an unnecessary expenditure of time and effort for the adviser to go so thoroughly into a matter which more than half of his students will never care about anyway. But after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions...
...town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt "too poor" to accept proffered Ambassadorships. Mr. Hilles clings to the Coolidge-anyway idea...
...would a book about a girl like she be so wonderful? And it seems that Ralph Barton's portraits aren't so good either without the Inspiration he seems to get out of me in them. But there's a long intraduction full of practically nothing but me. And anyway 40,000 people bought the book before it was even out, and so it seems that there is nothing to really be discouradged about as usual...