Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the now famous Harkness project approaching realization at Harvard, history of a far-reaching significance is being made. The men in whose hands rests the unenviable responsibility of breaking the ground for this undertaking would give a good deal to be able to occupy our places as university undergraduates for a few days; for there are many of the thoughts of youth, psychological shifts of one sort or another, which come to these older men through the haze, be it ever so faint, of memory. And, though to age belongs wisdom, in youth there is a degree of sound...
...acquiring greater efficiency. Now, at the end of three years, a report on the system declares that all of the men working under it are doing well. From the point of view of modern education, however, this project is at fault in that, despite the fact that it offers good professional training, it minimizes the possibilities of gaining a general cultural background...
...Harvard Lampoon has done it again; but this time it seems to transcend all other offenses against good taste and sense, because the present attack on Edward S. Harkness is something serious and tangible...
...Williams' statement that ignorance causes the opposition to the House plan may be qualified. It must be pointed out that a lack of complete understanding of a thing is a very good reason for opposing it. If Mr. Williams is true, it is not the fault of those who are ignorant, but of those who refuse to alleviate this ignorance, that the House plan, shrouded in suspicious darkness, has met with more opposition than the interview would lead one to believe. It was a serious mistake to acquaint undergraduates and graduates with such a momentous innovation by means of sensational...
...Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...