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Approximately two hundred seniors concentrating in the Division of Ancient and Modern Languages find the college year opening in a frantic combination of high pressure skimming of the world's greatest literatures and desperate cram sessions under Mt. Auburn Street tutelage. This jumble of postponed effort is the herald of next week's Authors examinations. It is not an ominous sign...
...Graduate Students only Robinson Hall Undergraduate Students only Fogg Small Lect. Room Geography 12 Memorial Hall German 1a Mr. Bennett, I Semitic Mus. 1 German 2 Dr. Heffner, I Semitic Mus. 1 Government 19 Sever 11 History 1 Mr. Chamberlain, 2, 25, Conf. group I Mallinckrodt MB 9 Mr. Cram, 1, 12, Conf. group II New Lect. Hall Mr. Dow, 18, 39, Conf. group III Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Jordan, 4, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. MacDonald, 5, 14, Conf. group V Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mr. Perkins, 35, 38, Conf. group VI Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Potter...
...Arts 1f Robinson Hall Fogg Small Lect. Room Geography 12 Memorial Hall German 1a Memorial Hall German 1a Mr. Bennett, I Semitic Mus. 1 German 2 Dr. Heffner, I Semitic Mus. 1 Government 19 Sever 11 History 1 Mr. Chamberlain, 2, 25, Conf. group I Mallinckrodt MB 9 Mr. Cram, 1, 12, Conf. group II New Lect. Hall Mr. Dow, 18, 39, Conf. group III Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Jordan, 4, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. MacDonald, 5, 14, Conf. group V Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mr. Perkins, 35, 38, Conf. group VI Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Potter...
...thesis, and most Seniors have devoted more time to their thesis than to direct preparation for Divisionals. Many Seniors have found the thesis not only the most time-consuming but the most interesting part of their year's work, and have been able to do little more than cram from their Divisionals...
...course, this can be no hard and fast rufe, as it is entirely possible that a first-rate student will apply from a cramming school, and such exceptions must be at the discretion of the Committee on Admissions. And even if some earnest applicants may suffer from a rigorous exclusion of candidates stuffed in cramming schools, it is better that they be refused admittance than that Harvard continue to imbibe and fail to digest a money-qualified, cram-prepared group...