Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship sails out of harbor bound for--no one seems to know, just "Outward Bound." Passengers gather in the bar and try to figure it all out. By the third act the ship has reached its destination, and they all know. With this fantastic idea as a frame-work, Sutton Vane wrote a play that hit the jack-pot on Broadway a decade or so ago. Recently William A. Brady has revived the play and it has hit the jack-pot again...
Editorially, the Bruin pointed out that "The only persons who might conceivably be opposed to the plan are those who tutor students for money on this campus. The effective operation of this idea will undoubtedly cripple the business of such tutors who will be faced with competition which works gratis...
...P.B.H. idea has been slightly modified in its new application. Whereas Harvard's Undergraduate Faculty is designed to meet the needs of school students who want free tutoring, or high school graduates financially unable to go to college, the groups in California exist solely for undergraduates, though they may later be extended to include extension students...
...given the American Civilization Plan a new lease on life. After drifting along without unified direction since Professor Buck's resignation as chairman a month ago, the Plan is at last in efficient hands. Those hands have a clear task ahead of them, for they must resuscitate an idea which has all but perished from administrative neglect and unfavorable publicity...
...undergraduate mind the Plan is still associated with the notion of "study" which the Bliss examinations represented. Although these have happily been abolished in favor of short essays for the same appealing prizes, it remains for the Chairman and the counselors to "sell" Harvard on the American Civilization idea...