Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Head Varsity football Coach Dick Harlow, who has been confined for about two weeks in Phillips House at the Massachusetts General Hospital with the grippe, left the hospital yesterday...
...room in the Massachusetts General Hospital was all that George F. Snell, Jr. '41 got for trying to shoot down the Lowell House bells last night...
...gifts from Mr. Stimson, the Harvard Law School Association, and the Law School Class of 1913. Designed as an informal reading room for students, the Root Room contains current magazines, current government publications of interest to lawyers, and books of biography, history, government, and fiction, and other volumes giving general background...
There has, however, been one positive reaction to the tutoring racket. Next year, according to assurances from University Hall, there will be a general retreat from certain of Harvard's outstanding liberal practices. There will be reduction of the cuts allowable to each student, more careful records of attendance, pushes on all fronts against the disciplinary freedom which undergraduates enjoy here. The reasons for this lie in the vague belief that tutoring is the result of too much freedom. And on the basis of this vague belief, students are to be rudely stripped of their privileges...
There are great faults in Harvard's teaching system; if the degenerate type of tutoring is ever to be driven from Harvard, there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without...