Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form an opposing argument which...
...study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week in the House...
...Houses are to be residential units. The courses of instruction, the requirements for a degree, the examinations, the college discipline outside of good order in the House, will be as before, under the Faculty. So will the work of the tutors, for although this will be done so far as possible in the Houses, its nature and quality will remain under the supervision of the body of tutors for the department or division concerned. Nevertheless, the relation of the tutor to his pupil will be closer than ever, because, if unmarried, he will live and commonly take his meals...
...users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with...
...have large increases [in population] for the next few decades," and "never has any previous civilization shown a rapacity that compares even remotely to our own." For instance: "The question of whether any white people should hold and exploit a tropical country with native labor as is now being done is going to become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor remedies. Assimilation of the few by the many is more logical. But race friction usually hinders assimilation. Thus closes the vicious circle making another war inevitable. One Thompson remedy for population troubles: the dissemination...