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Vice-President Lowes, Dean Leighton, and Athletic Director Bingham have expressed their approval of the Cup. It was decided last night that Dean Leighton and Bingham will choose the winner, who will receive a picture of the trophy on which his name will be inscribed...
...name of each winner will be engraved upon the Cup and if there are sufficient funds, a smaller individual trophy goes to the recipient of the honor. Following Dean Leighton's suggestion, the award will probably be placed in the hands of the H.A.A. Awards Committee...
...Leighton in his annual report, besides directing attention to the deficiencies of the present Freshman adviser system, has called for more individual instruction and special attention for the first year men, not only through more frequent conferences with the advisers, but also by means of decreasing the size of the sections in the elementary courses...
...present there is great danger that, through the unwieldy nature of many of the sections to which he is assigned in the first year courses, the Freshman may get so little practice in intelligent discussion that he is hampered in his future work. Mr. Leighton points out that in some sections there are as many as fifty and the average number is twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school...
...Dean Leighton's report suggests that it might be desirable to give Freshman advisers some compensation for their work, that they might afford to grant more time to it, but does not press the argument because of the present straightened circumstances of University finances. However, if the two most important aspects of the development of education at Harvard are the tutorial system and the House plan, it is obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student...