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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey, or vegetable soup course, is probably the greatest of these. Such courses as Government 1 are harmful to the student in three ways. They give him the blissful illusion, common among undergraduates at the University of Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener...
...community so rich in the stuff of life could fail to provide a political scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages...
...heterogeneous a section of American youth as Harvard's student body, one of the few things that all men hold in common is a fervent desire for peace. The man who deplores the bombing of Spanish Loyalists and does not equally deplore the bombing of Spanish Insurgents is not a pacifist, but a politician. There are comparatively few of these politicians at Harvard; they will be found this morning furiously distributing literature. Those who are truly representative of Harvard will go sincerely and soberly to Sanders Theatre, whether Quaker or R.O.T.C. officer, to see what hope remains of preserving peace...
John A. Sullivan, Jr., '38, Lawrence F. Ebb, '39, and Claudius J. Byrne, '40, will debate against Princeton in the Lowell House Common Room at 7:45 o'clock on April 29, while Phil C. Neal, '40, Donald McDonald, '39, and Malcolm R. Wilkie, '40, will face Yale at New Haven the same night...
...Allan M. Butler, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School, and Dr. James H. Townsend '17, instructor at the Medical School, will lead a discussion on socialized medicine at the Winthrop House Junior Common Room tonight at 8 o'clock...