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...Dean Elder's recent proposals on education recognizes that no direct and necessary relation exists between bluebooks, courses and effective education. The Dean has proposed a radical extension of one of the concepts in the advanced standing program. He would permit seniors to forego course requirements, attending such lectures and reading such books as they wished, under a tutor's guidance...
...Apley experiment, according to Murphy, "offers more time to study--home is too much confusion." Lloyd stated that he can now use athletic facilities he had to forego in previous years...
Names of honorary winners have traditionally aroused speculation throughout the University. In the past, not the least of the speculators has been the CRIMSON. But this year, the CRIME will forego its own annual predictions, to open the first annual "Name the Honoraries" contest...
This upturn in the amount of contributions to PBH is the culmination of a situation which began in 1947, when the House agreed to forego its own highly-successful find-raising campaign, and join the Combined Charities Appeal. Since 1947, the amount of donations to PBH dropped from a high of $5000 to its low last year. Since it had fairly-well depleted the $10,000 savings which it had accumulated during and after the war and was now more dependent upon the donations from the Combined Charities, it was decided to stress the choice of PBH as recipient...
While Harvard is a masculine university, Summer School brings boys and girls together under the ardently defended priciples of "co-education." Three thousand students (in winter there are sixteen thousand) forego vacation. Most are here because it is easier to get into Harvard than in the winter: it's just a matter of paying. This is a way of obtaining in two months a "semi-diploma" which allows acceleration of studies, and, above all, an opportunity to stay active. As for leisure, weekends and long evenings are adequate. One gets the impression, however, that in America one never takes...