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Dana Bennett Durand '25, of Washington, D. C., has been announced the winner of the CRIMSON Essay Contest on the basis of his essay entitled "A Suggestion for Raising the Standard of Intellectual Preparation in the Undergraduate Department of Harvard." As a result, Durand will receive the $600 scholarship for foreign travel offered by the United States Lines for next summer...
Honorable mention has been awarded Edward Brooks Ballard '27, of Lexington, for his essay "Harvard's Dual Educational System," and James Harry Smith '25, of Tiptonville, Tenn., for his essay "Harvard's Tutorial System and its Future." Both of these essays will be published at an early date. The board of judges who passed on the 42 essays which were submitted consisted of Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney...
...docility. The good student is always an "intractable animal" and how to get rid of him" is the eternal problem of education. With the general theses of these papers most of us are in entire accord. William James said much of it years ago in his memorable essay about the "Octopus", but more power to those who think that it is worth saying over again, forever, in all its permutations and combinations...
...winner of the CRIMSON essay contest for the $600 travel scholarship offered by the United States Lines will be announced in the CRIMSON tomorrow morning, and the essay setting forth the policy whose inauguration, in the opinion of the contest winner, would most benefit the University will be published in full. Besides picking the winning essay, the judges, Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17 have awarded honorable mention to two contestants, and their essays will be published in subsequent issues of the CRIMSON...
...Thursday, April 30, the departmental examinations in History, Government, and Economics will be held in Memorial Hall from 9.15 to 12.15, and the essay examination of Social Ethics from 9.30 to 12.30 in Emerson...