Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identification of slides, even of monuments, is insurance against a too academic consideration of a mass of material. Anyone who has sat in a darkened room and tried his wits at snap judgments on a series of pictures appreciates the intensive training necessary for any kind of success. The gain to concentrators in the Fine Arts should be that which comes from expansion without diffusion...
This afternoon between the steeply banked walls of the Union Living Room there will occur a spectacle to which only those lucky enough to hold the little blue pasteboard will gain admittance. Always a tense and thrilling affair, the gathering in the Union promises this year to linger long in the memories of those attending. But from the very privilege which is extended to the audience proceeds a peril. Thoughtful only of their own comfort the undergraduates who are expected to fill the living room this afternoon may overlook the fact that they owe a whole hearted support...
...Committee on the Choice of Electives is the University stethoscope, registering the heart beats of Harvard and its educational system. And again this year comes the statement that an increase is shown in the number of candidates for distinction and honors, a trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests that more men yearly are striving...
...combined field of History, Government and Economics is by far the largest in the College, with 775 members of the three upper classes enroled. It has shown a gradual though steady gain since 1926. Below the divisions of Economics and English ranks as the third largest field History, with 233 concentrators. The combined field of Modern Languages, containing the Romance Languages, German and English, numbers 634 men, a decided drop from its 1926 total...
Fine Arts Shows Gain...