Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With each successive publication of the official announcement of courses of instruction offered by the faculty of arts and sciences is one impressed with the readily apparent lack of logic and systematic compilation that characterizes its pages. Tradition and the addition of new courses each year are probably responsible for this confused and illogical arrangement, but it is time that sweeping changes be made if the announcement is to be a useful and intelligible guide for students...
What are the qualifications for a tutor? They are different from that of a professor for he must personally guide a student through his field. While a professor with a skilled knowledge of his field may make up for his lack of teaching ability, the tutor cannot do this. He must possess breadth of character which will permit him to pass on something more than facts. He must know that life exists outside of Cambridge if he is to give a man an education which will be of use to him. In short, a thesis or research work cannot serve...
...medium for expression is present in Cambridge in abundance. Any budding orator cannot complain that his efforts are stifled by a lack of a congenial group. It is not the medium, but the desire which is not present in abundance...
There were both a lack of spirit and a presence of error in judgement, such as the failure to meet Dartmouth's continual plays off the short side of the line. Always Harvard unbalanced its line when the Green did, and 90 per cent of the time the play came smashing through the short area, where the Crimson has short-handed itself...
With the house libraries now an integral part of the educational system at Harvard and the basic stock of volumes laid in it is time to consider what new additions will add most to the libraries' usefulness. At present one of the chief faults is the relative lack of book used for outside reading in the more popular courses like Economics A, Fine Arts 1b and Government...