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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
Mass production colleges and lack of association between professor and pupil have always been the targets of educational reformers. Two solutions are proposed: enlisting the aid of the student in his own education through comprehensive examinations; and a small and intimate community of teachers and pupils as the ideal setting for intellectual stimulus...
Whether the College is justified in actually including the so-called outside activities in its curriculum raises, however, grave questions of administration. The only real difficulty presented by the present separation of the two fields is the lack of sympathy sometimes displayed by the extreme supporters of each camp. But, here at Harvard at least, it is only the extreme academist who willfully penalizes his students because they value the sort of development to be found on the athletic field or the College musical clubs. And conversely, the undergraduate managers of extra curricular activities are usually more pleased than otherwise...
There seem to be three principal causes for failure to register. The first is just forgetfulness; the second is lack of knowledge of the rule; and the third is the desire of students to avoid paying what they think to be an exorbitant cost...
...greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power to technique...