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Charles Wilson Killam was appointed by the Corporation Acting Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture. The Corporation has also announced the selection of M. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Exchange Professor from France for the first half...
Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
...advantages of contact with men from all parts of the country are innumerable. There is nothing so interesting, nor broadening as the so-called "mixing" with men of varied types and opinions; it is fully half of a man's education. There is no doubt that the comparatively few men who do come here from the West and South gain much by their association with New Englanders; but do the New Englanders with their predominant number gain all that they could if they had more classmates from distant parts? The same holds true of the relations between Southerners and Westerners...
...other feature which 1922 must bear in mind is that it is at present more separated than any Freshman class since the Class of 1917; half its members are in two Freshman dormitories and the rest are scattered throughout Cambridge. Any occasion which will tend to unite these elements and develop a more normal condition should most certainly be encouraged...
While a student may obtain two full courses credit by taking two half-courses in each session, yet the majority of the courses, over eighty per cent, are given in the first term, which extends from July 1st to August 9th, and four courses are continued through both sessions. The thirty courses of the second term, which lasts from August 11 to September 13, are mostly of an advanced nature, although "Inorganic Chemistry" and a course corresponding to Economics A will be given. During the first term Professor Thomas N. Carver will give a course on "Programmes of Social Reconstruction...