Word: greatness
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Having lost both F. A. Clark '29, and G. O. Clark '31 of last year's championship team, Coach Sharp has a great deal to do to round his team into shape. However, Captain E. T. Gerry II '31, the only Crimson man with a handicap rating, H. I. Nicholas Jr. '31, and E. K. Jenkins '31 return to form a nucleus for the squad. Crispin Cooke '32, W. F. Luton '32, A. L. Castle '32, P. S. Owen '32, G. R. Holden '31, R. K. Leonard '31, and N. W. Kimball '31 complete the squad that turned out yesterday...
That the greatest difference between Harvard and Spanish Universities lies in the number of students enrolled and the method of the management, was the statement made to a CRIMSON reporter by E. Allison Peers, professor at the University of Liverpool since 1920 when he succeeded the great Cervantes scholar, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, as professor of Spanish. He is Visiting Professor of Modern Comparative Literature at Columbia University during the present academic year...
...Spanish Universities, and the English Universities except for Oxford, Cambridge, and London are run on a great deal smaller scale than Harvard", said Mr. Peers. "The result is, of course, that our professors are bothered with comparatively little organization or red tape, as compared with yours. In the University of Liverpool, for instance, there are only 1800 students. The main reason for this is that there are not anywhere near as many people in Spain or in England who are desirous of a college education as there are in America. Then too, in Spain the A. B. degree means almost...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...
...fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...