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With both sides agreeing on the need of some limitation, the debate centred upon the basis for discrimination to be adopted. J. D. Du Bois '24 and Corliss Lamont '24, on the affirmative, put forth, in brief, this plan: that the Freshman class be kept under 850 in number by preventing the repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed...
Speaking on the affirmative of the proposition, "Resolved: That enrolment in Harvard College should be limited by a change in scholastic requirements for entrance," J. D. Du Bois '24 and Corliss Lamont '24 will present and support a detailed plan for this limitation. E. St. R. Reynal '24 and Oliver La Farge '24 will argue the negative. Following the four main speeches will be a discussion from the floor and a vote to decide the issue...
...wording of the question is as follows: "Resolved: That enrolment in Harvard College should be limited by a change in scholastic requirements for entrance." The speakers for the affirmative, J. D. Du Bois '24 and Corliss Lamont 24, will present a plan which E. St. R. Reynal '24 and Oliver La Farge '24 will oppose. It is also possible that the negative will choose to propose an alternative plan...
...prize essay contest will be conducted throughout the country this winter by the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, according to an announcement made by Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of that organization's University and College Students Committee...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin Mr. Corliss Lamont reports and deplores a fact of undergraduate life at Harvard which is also, probably, a fact in many other colleges. The men from private schools control most of the undergraduate activities. The men from the public schools are at the head only in study and scholarship, the main purpose, aside from the ecclesastical object of the more ancient foundations which our wise and pious ancestors and their descendants established and endowed...