Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It has been pointed out several times that extra-curriculum activities at Harvard are controlled by private school graduates. Since those men come to college with the idea of carrying on this tradition, they are accustomed to look upon studies with unconcern. But in attaching so much importance to acquiring...
A few days before I arrived in Cambridge to begin my Freshman year, I received a pamphlet from the "Advocate", telling me how to make a success of college. But when I found that no mention was made in it of the value of studying, I was greatly puzzled. Does...
Private school graduates are able to control the managership and other competitions at Harvard because of the existence of a vast network of convention. The conventional meshes are so arranged that private school graduates can get through them while the public school graduates are excluded. This state of affairs is...
The leaders in undergraduate affairs, with a few exceptions condemn studies. As men who are thought to be great will always be imitated by other men a large number of students holding approminent place in extra-curriculum activities likewise look upon studies with unconcern. This general attitude is strengthened by...
In the matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school...