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...editorial reprinted from the Exonian in an adjoining column is significant in two respects. In the first place if commends the effort of the new plan to give the individual more contacts. Secondly it claims auccean for the smaller classes and the increase in discussion which the Harkness fund has made possible...
...full realization of the Harkness Plan, of course, has not yet been achieved, but the "Exonian" feels qualified to comment justly on one phase that has been realized. We refer to the reduction of the size of classroom sections and the introduction of the conference plan. Limited classes have served to facilitate the instruction of the laggard and at the same time to stimulate the desire of the able. Questions can now be discussed more fully and the student is called upon to fall back on his own individual mentality more than ever before. In general, it can be said...
Boston Latin's Trophy Sirs: May I inform the managing editor of The Exonian, through your columns, that the Boston Public Latin School for Boys has received the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University for permanent possession rather than Phillips Exeter Academy...
Sirs: I was surprised to see on p. 2 of your issue of June 29 a letter entitled "No Lead Shot," in which the Managing Editor of The Exonian asserts that "Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University, in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered." I should like to say that on the Head Master's mantle rests the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Trophy, which was won by the Lawrenceville School in 1930. Exeter won this in 1929. If the winning of the Phi Beta...
Managing Editor The Exonian Exeter...