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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The system of general examinations works well, no doubt, as far as each individual department of the college is concerned. The examinations determine accurately enough who in each field should fail, and who should be passed. But does the system work well for the various departments considered as a unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After The Ball Was Over | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

It is a well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After The Ball Was Over | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

The question why Freshmen have not been included in the "House plan" has been raised with some persistence in certain circles. To include them would involve a change in the construction of Harvard, both past and future which the authorities do not intend. It furthermore would undermine one of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Offers Bird's Eye View Of House Plan in 1929 Growth | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

From the point of view of the individual it would be unwise to include Freshmen in the new houses. It would mean returning to conditions as they were before the Freshman Dormitories, and the encouragement of cliques and of manouvers of clubs on the basis of school associations only. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Offers Bird's Eye View Of House Plan in 1929 Growth | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Do, Re, Mi

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ditson's $800,000 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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