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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must...
...course, a rule saying "you shall eat 14 meals here each week." But it is a bill for $8.50 which virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here." That is a requirement inconsistent with Harvard tradition and with English practice. It is a rule which, for the welfare of the House plan and the Harvard undergraduates, should be vastly modified. Incipient protests at Harvard and successful precedents at Cambridge both point to the importance and value of changing the announced plans, and leaving the undergraduates at least a good...
Professor C. N. Greenough '98, who is to be Master of Dunster House, was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts on June 29, 1874. Immediately after his graduation from Harvard in 1898, he became instructor in English, a position which he held for eight years. During this period he received his A. M. and Ph.D. degrees...
...went into the Middle West, where he was professor of English for three years at the University of Illinois. Then, in 1910, Professor Greenough returned to Harvard to take the position of assistant professor in English until 1915, when he was given full professorship...
With Barrett Wendell '01, he composed a "History of Literature in America" in 1904: in 1917 he wrote an "English Composition"; in 1905 he was co-editor of "Selections from the Writing of Joseph Addison": and in 1907, of "Specimens of Prose Composition...