Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Academy a year ago marked the resumption of athletic relations on the football field after a lapse of thirty-three seasons. This renewing of a contact which in the past has been characterized by its cordial sportsmanship and which in the present gives so much satisfaction, stands forth in the undergraduate mind as probably one of the most agreeable results of the recently inaugurated rotating-schedule policy of the Athletic Association...
...entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...
...advantages of using the H. A. A. surplus in completing the new Gymnasium were set forth in the CRIMSON last Spring to an extent which makes further review unnecessary. The delay in finally employing these funds in accordance with these ideas may probably be explained by the hope of the Corporation for further subscriptions from Alumni. The fact that there is a pressing need for funds in many departments which are not self-supporting can only increase the satisfaction over the present decision to make this perfectly legitimate use of the Associations surplus funds...
...search for an educational panacea has brought forth such a variety of proposed cures that it is not to be wondered if the net result to the patient is little more than a confused state of mind. A galaxy of remedies ranging all the way from the Micklejohn experiment at Wisconsin to the House Plan at Yale and Harvard presents and array broad enough to convince the layman that all the best authorities are not agreed even to the point of diagnosis. But perhaps in the most recent recommendation -- that of Professor Henderson of Yale--there is a new note...
Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself quietly in a corner, holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin...