Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his...
What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is...
That brings up an obvious point for consideration in connection with the House plan. If the meals at the Houses are good and well-served, if the surroundings are pleasant, if there is a real undergraduate objection to "eating around they will be well attended anyway, regardless of requirement. And...
The Houses are to be residential units. The courses of instruction, the requirements for a degree, the examinations, the college discipline outside of good order in the House, will be as before, under the Faculty. So will the work of the tutors, for although this will be done so far...
The crucial point is the selection of the students for each House. No college in the country, perhaps in the world, has a larger variety of undergraduates, coming from more different kinds of schools, than Harvard. This renders the selection for each House more difficult, and at the same time...