Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reality in brick and mortar and circumstances are at work moulding the "corporate personality" of every House from within while wind and weather and the long suffering ivy are giving the sanction of age to the naked glory without. It is inevitable and desirable that each House should develop its own individual tradition but it should not do so at the expense of any of its legitimate and important functions...
...matter in what other ways the houses which maintain the policy of splendid isolation may develop their individuality they can not afford to ignore this important part of their effective functions as members of the House Plan...
...consultation on careers are no new things in American colleges. But perhaps in interesting assay is the method of direction employed at Purdue University by Mr. J. E. Walters, Director of Personnel. His aim is not primarily to at square pegs into round holes, but to enable students to develop their personalities while in college, so as not to emerge as misfits to the detriment of themselves or their future employers...
...this method is the best, it certainly deserves the attention and investigation of other colleges. There are, though not in great numbers, undergraduates at Harvard who could be measurably aided by name much process as that of Mr. Walters. It is probable that in the future all colleges will develop suitable methods for individual attention to subdue the frequent outeries against mass production...
...years I have had no feeling of strangeness here. Privileged to reside in Eliot House, I am conscious of a genuine university atmosphere. The institution of Houses, I understand, is new; but they seem to me to be settling down rapidly, and, while retaining their own individuality, they will develop Oxford traditions...