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...Freshmen are urged to attend a meeting in the New Lecture Hall this morning at 9 o'clock, to consider the choice of a field of concentration. Dean Hanford will preside...
...statement from University Hall last night Dean Hanford revealed that application blanks for admission to the Houses have been sent to members of the Class of 1937, and that this year for the first time men applying for rooms which rent for $180, or less, are required to fill out a special confidential circular. This special circular inquires into the student's financial prospects for 1934-35. Coincident with the distribution of these blanks, Dean Hanford announced that the final date for the choice of a field of concentration this year will be March 30 instead of the second week...
...eligible to vote are: this year's Senior sixteen, last year's Junior eight, and a graduate committee of seven. Of these seven, three are ex-officio members of the Society, and three are elected for one year only. The ex-officio members are President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Professor Brinton, the corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. Those who were elected are Mason Hammond '25, Instructor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, Instructor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...
...Dean Hanford's Annual Report shows signs of an intelligent comprehension of some of the major problems of Harvard College. The red tape which has heretofore been the accompaniment of a Harvard Education: to wit 17, 16, or 15 courses, daily attendance at classes, and the inevitable hour exams are recognized as undesirable and unnecessary. Now if the Dean and the President can only get together, and do something about it, Harvard may blossom forth and regain its place as a center of culture and learning instead of its present unenviable degree-factory characteristics...
There is, to be sure, no contradiction between the aims which Dean Hanford proposes for the College and the aims which President Conant has set for the University. Many of Mr. Hanford's proposals will without question be put into effect. But any broad program to strengthen the hold of the tutorial system is bound to mean an added dram on the University treasury and an added burden on the faculty's most capable teachers. The President has other uses for the money and other plan for the faculty. He has chosen a way calculated to add to the prestige...