Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phase of the House Plan has been conspicuously neglected in all the columns devoted to that subject. I refer to the fate of the many clubs and fraternities at Harvard under the House Plan. It is difficult to make any predictions, since there is so little positive data from which to predict. Nevertheless it appears certain that the new system, once instituted, will have an immediate and important effect on all the undergraduate social organizations at Harvard. It seems everyone is agreed that the outlook for the fraternities and clubs is serious, not to say alarming. It would be desirable...
There is little point in discussing at length the value and importance of these organizations, both to themselves and as part of Harvard College. Nor is it necessary to show why they have a right to live. Every one of them, it is safe to assume, has justified its existence as a social institution. Yet when the House Plan threatens to force most of them, perhaps all of them, to give up the ghost, it seems only fair that the administration be duly considerate of all the circumstances, and protect the interests of the many organizations which have been...
Further attention to Harvard players has been marked by the appearance of J. G. Douglas '30 at end on several of the "All-Eastern" teams, and the prominence of the "Sophomore 4" in sports reviews in which the quartet, composed of W. B. Wood Jr. '32. E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, B. D. White '32, and Charles Devens '32, takes its place beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded...
...student at Cambridge University, England, Russell studied mathematics under Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard. Later he became an instructor at Cambridge and collaborated with Professor Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematical", three volumes of which have been published. In spite of its title this work is a treatise of logic as well as mathematics, and advances the theory that mathematics and logic can be united in a single science...
...banquet planned in honor of the University football team by members of the Harvard Club of Boston will be held on December 19, according to members of the committee organizing the festivity. E. W. Soucy '16 will be in general charge of the dinner and will be assisted by a committee of 14 members, among whom are many prominent in the football history of the University...