Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ideally, the now Advocate should contain a combination of undergraduate opinion regarding literature and the social sciences. The fact that English is still the most popular field of concentration guarantees ample treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
...form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
...conference decided to send petitions, and to organize delegations to wait upon Governor Ely requesting him to pardon the seven prisoners, who have already served one month of a six month sentence. The delegation will contain many professors as well as students...
Another subject which remains enveloped in fog to the mass of undergraduates who take it as a requirement is Philosophy. Philosophy A is little short of a boring rule which must be adhered to, containing small interest, having uninspired lectures, and run by men, who to the undergraduates, contain no imagination. Philosophy is a difficult subject at best to teach to undergraduates, but if it could be done through a history of philosophic thought, given interestingly and imaginatively, it probably could be made more palatable to the men who elect it, and it would also give to them some idea...
...Cherington states: "The Critic does not presume, as Mr. Wade implies, to the arrogant undertaking of teaching Harvard men to think." I am glad, but then I cannot understand why the Critic editorial should contain these words: "To teach how to think and what to think about. . .' Idealistically the existence of the Critic is a tacit plea for this...