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...offers as a vacation, but thought on the matter goes little farther. But even if the feeling on these festivities is purely negative, there is no actual foundation for the pessimistic belief that Thanksgiving is becoming obscured by modern life. It is not a matter of more or less, but difference in expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THANKSGIVING | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERTY DEPENDS ON POCKETBOOK IN PRESENT SYSTEM | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

While the Houses ought not to be in all respects exactly alike, or precisely of the same size, they should in general be formed on a similar pattern. It is intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL OUTLINES HOUSE SYSTEM IN SPEECH AT ALBANY | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...Associates are attached to the Houses in a more or less advisory capacity. They will eat frequently in the hall dining rooms, and will attend the various functions of the units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICK ASSOCIATES FOR FIRST HOUSES | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...particularly unfortunate that this restriction on freedom works more hardship upon some men financially less comfortable than others. This is not only out of line with the Harvard custom which deprecates distinction by wealth, but is wholly antagonistic to the spirit of democracy which is presumed to be the essence of the House Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DINING HALL CHARGE | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

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