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...eighteenth cenutry, tutors had their own chambers, and during the disorderly period of the Revolution, if not before, the undergraduates began to look upon them as their natural enemies. A lad who treated his tutor as a friend was looked down upon as a 'fisherman', and the tutors regarded the undergraduates as inmates in a reformatory...
...Holt abolished lectures, substituted group discussions, credited originality as much as "A" grades, allowed students to determine their own direction and rate of progress. On the side, he stumped the country in support of the League of Nations, later espoused such lesser causes as simplified spelling ("thru") and the Eighteenth Amendment, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. senate and the Connecticut legislature...
Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat of pleasing an audience with music most of them had never heard before...
Editor Hutchinson sees another reason for the decline of Protestant influence in "the failure of certain church-sponsored reforms to produce the social miracles promised. This has been the period, it must be remembered, of the rise and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment. Even women's rights, secured largely with church help, have brought no striking improvement in public morality...
...point still to be settled: the Eighteenth's commander. The airborne's greatest fear is that the job may go to an Air Force general who would insist on treating an airborne operation like an airlift, shuttling planeloads of men and equipment to an airhead on a commuter-train timetable. Airborne officers insist that the intricate job of establishing an airhead in enemy territory requires newer techniques-which must still be developed. Their candidate for the command: Major General Robert W. Douglass, former chief of staff of Air Forces in Europe...