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Born in Somerville, Mass. 60 years ago (Secretary Woodin called him "a real true American") Dr. Sprague "loafed egregiously" (his phrase) during his first two years at Harvard, then specialized in political science and was graduated in 1894 summa cum laude. He traveled in Europe, taught economics at the Imperial University at Tokyo, became in 1908 an original faculty member of the Harvard Business School. His extemporaneous lectures on finance and banking were so good that at least one pupil reproduced them and sold them at a profit to outside businessmen. Abnormally nearsighted, Professor Sprague could not identify even...
Long the butt of criticism from students and professors, the degree of cum laude in General Studies is on the point of being abolished or radically altered. Committees from the faculty and the Student Council, having considered the question, are postponing action on it until next year, when presumably an entirely new and more wholesome attitude will inscrutably have come to pass...
...aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the thesis, and the advantages of concentrated study in one field culminating in general examinations. Aside from its inadequacy within the College, there is marked inequity in granting the same cum laude on such different grounds of achievement. The degree should be a badge of something approaching maturity of outlook; nine honor grades in unrelated courses are not the least guarantee that their recipient is not a hopeless duffer...
...compromise which has been suggested is perhaps the best solution. It is proposed to give a degree with Distinction in General Studies, quite separate from that with the cum laude in a special field. For certain borderline cases where there has been a late change of field, or where the student does not wish to specialize as much as honors would require, for distinction between the scholar and the man who has done a minimum of work, this would adequately fill the place of general honors...
...decision in favor of oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style business efficiency. James Conant is one of his country's foremost organic chemists. Born in Dorchester, Mass., son of an able wood-engraver, he took his Harvard A. B. (Class of 1914) in three years, magna cum laude. While taking his Ph. D. he was a teaching fellow. During the War he worked on gases, became a major in the Chemical Warfare Service. Then he returned to Harvard and, because the university feared losing him to another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking...