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...First, participation is an excellent means of education. A student can learn far more about the reality of social and economic questions by group work than by mere reading or observation; this is what hard-headed men call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute...
However, there is action of another type which involves study of governmental and political problems by actual observance. This practical and first-hand experience is valuable and educative in itself, so long as the study groups refrain from taking sides on the issue involved. As a live, intellectual and worthwhile discussion group, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Union has great potentialities, and, if it were so inclined, could become a leading force in the Yard. The student's most effective place is in the University, where he has time and opportunity to study, learn, and think; but when...
...lecture will be at 7:45 o'clock in Room 6, Harvard Hall. Higgins is a resident of Dublin and a close associate of many of the leading figures in the Irish Renaissance, and thus speaks of the Irish Drama from first-hand knowledge...
...order to gain valuable first-hand experience with highway problems, the men drove down in cars over some of the more important eastern routes. Once established at Hotel George Washington in New York, they will make short trips of inspection to parkway developments in Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey...
...Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart from Win, er Take Nothing...