Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty nine Seniors were elected to the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa last Saturday. The annual meeting and literary exercises of the Chapter will be held on Friday. At a performance open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will speak, Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will deliver a poem, a prayer will be given by the Reverend Henry B. Washburn '91, and the double quartette of the Glee Club will sing. Later in the day a private meeting of the Chapter will be held to which the public will not be admitted...
...good work is little better than begun. Coming up for consideration and decision next year are three varying and immensely important problems. First, the Latin requirement and its prostitution as the basis of distinction between the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees must be weighed in the balance and thoroughly modified definitions for the two degrees established. The present preposterous situation in which a concentrator in Bio-Chemistry may receive the B.A. and a concentrator in English the B.S. must be conclusively abolished...
...advance the standards and ideals of the profession," the Association has ever since been strenuously denying that it is a "professors' union," that its prime purpose is to champion victims of academic injustice. Its committees range from A to Z, busy themselves with such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions and Insurance," "University Ethics," "Depression and Recovery in Higher Education." But its Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee A does not pull its punches. Its reports are models of courageous investigation and forthright speaking. If the entire profession should...
...clearer. For the language step the CRIMSON duly offers thanks: the elementary requirement was a farce, and the courses built to meet it a waste and a nuisance. But to the steps presumably next in line, the realignment of the A.B. and the S.B. and the consequent slighting of Latin, there are, considered along with the changes in distribution, more problematic implications...
...elimination of conflicting restrictions such as the elementary language requirements and hour examinations is all to the good. But there is room in the curriculum for more than one objective. The abandonment of distribution (and especially the required choice between mathematics and philosophy), and the prospective retirement of Latin, carry real danger. The experience under President Eliot with a policy of free-for-all, as underscored by present vagaries in secondary education, indicates the necessary for demanding that the schools furnish, or candidates for degrees secure, a minimum orientation in the vigorous culture of tradition...