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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, participation is an excellent means of education. A student can learn far more about the reality of social and economic questions by group work than by mere reading or observation; this is what hard-headed men call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute...
Therefore, stay home if you can. Get a job as an ordinary shop-hand, as a store clerk, or sell something if you think you can. Tutoring or serving as companion is remunerative work when it is available. So much for the money saver...
Eleanor meets Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny...
...tractor the like of which no one had ever seen. With three wheels and a Ford V-8 engine, it looks like a lopsided tricycle, will probably sell for less than $375. Said he: "It is the solution of the nation's troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners. ... I don't care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started...
However, there is action of another type which involves study of governmental and political problems by actual observance. This practical and first-hand experience is valuable and educative in itself, so long as the study groups refrain from taking sides on the issue involved. As a live, intellectual and worthwhile discussion group, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Union has great potentialities, and, if it were so inclined, could become a leading force in the Yard. The student's most effective place is in the University, where he has time and opportunity to study, learn, and think; but when...