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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college and the daily contacts of students one with another outside of the classroom. The committee feels very strongly that one of the major defects of Harvard education is the failure of a very large and apparently increasing number of undergraduates to reap the benefits of that larger life of the college which promotes culture as distinct from mere knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Committee Report Would Subdivide College on English System | 4/6/1926 | See Source »

...knowledge of human nature as possible. It is quite right that the clubs exist, and it is natural that they should draw together men of kindred interests. This is an excellent feature of college life, as all will admit. But when there is no effective center of gravity larger than the club to draw men of different interests together, there is great danger that the clubs will lead to mold men into types, to stamp out individuality, and to promote a certain smugness based upon the axiom that "Difference from like is the measure of absurdity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Committee Report Would Subdivide College on English System | 4/6/1926 | See Source »

...must find out," says Dean Greenough, wheather these activities are an advantage or a disadvantage to scholarship. . . . If they are not a disadvantage, should not the public school men be allowed--and urged to take--a larger share in them, and must we not search further for some cause or causes to which we can trace the inferior showing of the private school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN GREENOUGH'S REPORT | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...courage to make open appeal for the funds required to answer them, and we are glad that it has done so. Every dollar of that portion of the five millions of new endowment which is to go for research will help achieve for the American people values inestimably larger than their cost in money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law's Appeal | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

...funds to be requested do not contemplate provision for a larger school. What is contemplated is adequate physical provision for the present number of students, but above all else an increased number of professors and greatly increased facilities for teaching and research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Asks Five Million to Halt Country-Wide Wave of Lawlessness | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

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