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...test previously unmeasured intangibles on which Progressives set great store, he invented ingenious new tests, using observation of pupils as well as pencil and paper quizzes. Results: Progressive pupils scored higher than those in traditional schools in knowledge of current affairs and people, honesty, cooperation, leadership, ability in creative, writing and art, critical thinking, breadth of interests. Traditional school pupils knew more about rules of health, Progressive pupils were huskier and healthier...
Three noted American poets, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, and Mark Van Doren will give readings of their poetry at the University during the first half of the current academic year, under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, of Harvard...
...virtue of its strategic location in the city, its huge physical properties, and its universal renown, Harvard has often been involved in political attacks similar to the one which has marked the current campaign in Cambridge. Culminating in an open attack on Harvard's existence as a part of this municipality, such action is at least several steps beyond the traditional point to which differences between town and gown have been carried heretofore. Practically without exception, the vulnerable point in the University's armor seems to be some statement or action by teacher or student which is taken...
Amazed by the fact that Widener Library was able to show him the original manuscript of his first play, Sir Cedric Hardwieke, the majestic Canon of the current hit "Shadow and Substance," was enthusiastic about the state of dramatics at Harvard and the reception which he received at his talk here yesterday, sponsored by the Dramatic Club...
...written work wouldn't impress a Hottentot, but even I feel justified in crying out in painful protest against the flatulent, inane farce parading in Saturday's Crimson under the pretentious rubric of "Collections and Critiques." I don't mean farce; I mean tragedy. For Fogg's current exhibition of modern French art--Degas, Daumier, Renoir, Picasso--would stir the most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant, do at least say and mean something. How intriguing...