Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defined in its newly-adopted constitution, of attempting "an intelligent search for knowledge concerning political, social, and economic adjustment." The constitution further declares that "Neither advocacy nor agitation shall be considered a part of its work. Its functions shall be informative, and its goal, understanding." The Club proposed to discuss in its program for the current year the question, "What is the depression revealing as to the need for long run changes?" To this end the Club is planning the organization of discussion groups within the Houses meetings at which prominent speakers will express their views of the Club...
...undergraduate employment with special reference to students in the Houses. Portions of this report have already been published in an earlier issue of the CRIMSON. It is expected that the report of last year's Student Council will also be released, after the Corporation has had further opportunity to discuss it. The Council voted to draw up a recommendation favoring inter-House eating, and submit this to the House masters...
Sundays and Mondays have been tentatively set as the days for the gatherings. It is hoped that the first-year men will take advantages of this time to meet their instructors out of class and discuss present day problems and topics...
...stated intervals during the year, the presidents of all clubs that are parties to the agreement shall meet to discuss any question which may have arisen as to the working or infringement of the rules...
...lectures. The close parallelism (or perhaps a better term might be found, for parallel lines never meet!) of the lectures and reading make much of the work pure repetition. Only a very few exceptions, notably Professor Webster's masterpiece on the History of Modern Britain and the British Empire, discuss tendencies and movements, thus introducing a spirit of life which cannot in the nature of things be derived from readings alone. And surely the much-emphasized traditions of unity, hats, and pointers, are not among the best of Harvard traditions...