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...House becomes especially important in the light of today's close scrutiny into the philosophy of undergraduate education. For emphasis on formal, blue-book pedagogy, programs such as the Yale plan would substitute the informality of personal contact. Here in the College, an eighth House would make the present tutorial system more efficient. With additional space available, more non-resident tutors could be given offices in the Houses, making them readily accessible for the close tutor-student relationship that is the basis of the tutorial system. Also, more space would give tutors in fields other than the big five...
...squirmed when the ROTC men walked through the Yard on Monday afternoon, and in the fall he had started thinking that it was the last football game, the last jolly-up, and just a week ago the last hour exam had disappeared into the cold finality of a blue-book...
This confusion points up a still larger problem. The emphasis in the college is on final examinations. In some cases they count for almost an entire course grade. No matter how well he learns the course material, the man who cannot write a good blue-book cannot get good marks. This is especially true in Social Relations, and the field of History, Government, and Economics, two of the largest fields of concentration...
West was a fullback a la Ted Fritch with the freshman team two years ago, but was sidelined last season with a mild case of blue-book fatigue. The new Lamont practice field seems to have cured his ills, however, and West will probably be filling in for Chip Gannon next fall...
...Secrets. In World War I, Hansard staffers showed up at every secret session, were invariably excluded, locked their notebooks in the editor's cupboard at night with the pages blank. They did not even try to cover the secret debates of World War II. Hansard's familiar blue-book (white since 1943) was often delayed a day by bombings, but never missed an issue. Today Hansard sells (at 6d.) or gives away 9,876 copies an issue, the biggest circulation in its history...