Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such, which, though having risen from purely individual desire, may be called a true precursor of the House Plan. The past few years have seen an increasing number of upperclassmen solve the housing concerns of their final year by remaining on the Gold Coast. This, to a measure much larger than is apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause to the destruction of class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory...
...original equipment of a single "very fair and comely edifice" was a sort of boarding school with "a larger library with some books in it." The books were of course mostly theological. Today there are among other departments a great system of chemical laboratories a beautiful and elaborately devised medical school around which hospitals cluster observatories in Cambridge and South America and Arizona a branch school of medicine in China a main library with millions of books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge...
Although the tutorial system should not be made the basis of the House Plan--the House Plan is larger and wider in its implications than this system which is merely part of a coordinated education--yet it must be expanded and broadened as the facilities for its administration increase. Chemistry is now the only major department that remains without a general examination and there is no valid reason for its failure to fall into line...
...Houses will bring a much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form...
...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 offers a remarkable opportunity if successfully accomplished...