Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claiming that the success of the House Plan is threatened by a combination of high costs and depressed pocketbooks, an article in the current Harvard Graduate's Magazine proposes a new remedy for the situation. Taking his cue from the satisfactory experience of English Universities, the author would attract wealthy men to Harvard by inaugurating a "gentleman's degree." He suggests that the change could be effected simply by making the tutorial system a "privilege rather than a requirement"; only men in the first four scholastic groups could consult tutors. Others would do no tutorial work, would not be required...
Under present conditions, ambitions students are afforded the opportunity for a thorough education, while the lectsurely man finds little difficulty in ekeing out the required minimum marks. Despite the attractiveness of added remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university ought primarily to maintain its scholastic standard. The proposal of the Graduate's Magazine, if adopted, would injure the University's reputation and attract a group sure to be stagnant and barren of any real worth other than financial...
...into alcohol, anti-freeze materials. Museums. No community of more than 50,000 in the U. S., Canada or Great Britain lacks a museum of some kind. The U. S. has about 1400 museums of which 300 are devoted to Science and Industry. U. S. museums are intended to attract the general public and educate children, whereas the British type is primarily a specialist's collection. "Particularly fine organizations" are located at Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston, Chicago, Erie, Newark, Philadelphia, Rochester, Trenton. Trenton's Museum loans live animals to children. Museums in Cleveland and St. Louis and the Museum...
...inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that in 1933, the year of the Century of Progress [world's fair], it will be possible to present at Ravinia a season of such superb artistic distinction that it will attract not only the citizens of Chicago, but music lovers from all parts of the world...
Incongruous as these conditions may appear, in view of Harvard's relatively happy financial situation, their cause can easily be discerned. While other Universities have used every possible resource to attract preeminent scholars, Harvard has turned her mind toward providing the undergraduate with an expensive physical environment for education. The Graduate School has been left to its own resources and has suffered accordingly. In the open market for scholars, Harvard has been outbid time after time by smaller, less wealthy institutions...