Word: halle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever there was an ignored stepchild, the Law School is one. Once we leave the impeccable faculty, the scene is dismal. Austin Hall is a dingy relic, its classrooms ill-lighted, its accommodations cramped. Hastings is a typical New York tenement; Perkins, a cell block. Even so, they can house only a minority of the students. There are absolutely no dining facilities. We visit the A.A. during the Fall--after purchasing student books--and are handed seats (week after week) in the recesses of the Colonnades. Should we complain, one of their impolite minions snaps back that Harvard...
...whose interests are compatible with the majority of the non-House group only Article One, Section One of the Constitution need be changed. It should in the future require that there shall be on the Council one non-House man with no regular eating place, or if the lining-hall privilege is extended, it should require the presence of a non-House, non-club man. This change can be readily effected with the assent of two-thirds of the seventeen members, and once accomplished, it will do much to make the Council more representative...
...which believe in the intellectual value of the high table are faced with the unsavory situation of majority oppression. At Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop the inconvenience which House dinners cause the students not sitting at the high table counteracts the theoretical academic benefits. At quarter past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune...
Twice during the year there emerges from University Hall a storm of little white envelopes containing what are euphemistically termed "study cards." To all but the most conscientious of undergraduates--who, months beforehand, have carefully planned the minute details of their curriculum--the familiar forms are distinctly painful; and the problem of deciding upon one's intellectual career is made doubly hard by the notorious vagueness of the official register...
Later in the evening Van Zeeland lectured at Ford Hall in Boston. Van Zeeland has received a Master of Arts degree at Princeton, where he studied as a Follow on the exchange scholarship fund founded by the Belgian Relief Commission after the World War. Although he served as premier during the perilous times from 1935 to 1937, Van Zeeland looks incredibly young...