Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great success. Not only have the luncheons been well patronized, but the students, who are forever complaining about the food served at dinner, are loud in their praise of the quality of the luncheons. The food is, I think any impartial observer would agree, just as bad--or good--at luncheon as it is at dinner. But one meal is optional and the other is required: one is good...
That brings up an obvious point for consideration in connection with the House plan. If the meals at the Houses are good and well-served, if the surroundings are pleasant, if there is a real undergraduate objection to "eating around they will be well attended anyway, regardless of requirement. And if the meals are not all of these things, certainly no student should be required to eat them...
...practice. It is a rule which, for the welfare of the House plan and the Harvard undergraduates, should be vastly modified. Incipient protests at Harvard and successful precedents at Cambridge both point to the importance and value of changing the announced plans, and leaving the undergraduates at least a good-sized of their present freedom...
...Houses are to be residential units. The courses of instruction, the requirements for a degree, the examinations, the college discipline outside of good order in the House, will be as before, under the Faculty. So will the work of the tutors, for although this will be done so far as possible in the Houses, its nature and quality will remain under the supervision of the body of tutors for the department or division concerned. Nevertheless, the relation of the tutor to his pupil will be closer than ever, because, if unmarried, he will live and commonly take his meals...
...merits which made it eminently worthwhile, and the Halls were built. Now they can also serve the purpose for which they were first conceived, and there is all the more reason why separate halls for the freshmen should be retained. This is contrary to the views of some good friends, who do not appreciate the obstacles to be surmounted in carrying out the House plan, and urge that it would be better to include the freshmen in them. What may be possible at some future time, when the system has been so long in use as to create a firm...