Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42a and 42b is, for the average honors candidate in English, inconsequential. The latter discusses pre-Shakespearean literature, devoting two or three weeks to Chaucer. The former spends most of its time on Chaucer, with detail of his grammar and allusion, and adds about a month (Fridays during the second half) for reviewing other Middle English writers. Although required only for honors candidates, either of the courses presumably gives enough information for an answer to the first Divisional question. For this reason, both are large courses...
...letter by John Dos Passos '16 telling what he got as well as what he did not get out of Harvard. Two letters on the value of a college education have been written by Newton D. Baker and Clarence Darrow. The former lauds college education whereas the latter deprecates...
...training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
...year in Anthropology 1 is divided into several parts for convenience in covering the material. The first half-year concerns itself with Physical Anthropology, corresponding in some degree with a brief survey of human evolution, and in the latter part of the semester with pre-historic archaeology. For a short time after the mid-year period the course deals with racial distribution, and the rest of the year is spent with cultural anthropology, or Ethnology. The ethnology itself is divided into its departments of Religion, Sociology, Marriage and the Family...
...statement that Harvard students would not be favored against those of other universities, may be an attempt to have a special nucleus, to which more various elements can be added later. The fields represented show a preponderance of scientific over humanistic activity, only one, American history, belonging in the latter category. Most cause for skepticism, perhaps, is to be found in the general type of record, exhibited by the appointees. Here there is no sign that the old type of scholarship will be kept out of the Society, that a sort of Higher Learning will evolve from...