Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the Student Council report of 1937, the official University publications; such as the Harvard Athletic News, were forbidden to accept tutoring advertisements. According to the Council report, advertising has in a large measure contributed to the flourishing of the schools and has an obvious connection with respectability, especially in the eyes of incoming Freshmen...
...negotiations now under way may lie the key not only to future town-gown relations, strained during the past year, but to the political fortunes of Thomas McNamara, president of the Cambridge City Council...
...McNamara who last fall was a leader in the "City of Harvard" movement. Six weeks ago it was he who got the Council to pass a resolution requiring Mayor Lyons to appoint a citizens' committee to confer with University Hall. And it was the same McNamara who on Tuesday night reopened the question when he traced for the Council the tripling of Harvard's tax-exempt real estate value since...
...report of the Student Council Athletic Committee seems to me to employ the very methods calculated to frustrate its aims...
...Tutoring schools have grown out of their proper place and are a corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...