Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only by such means can the Freshman class be kept within the limit of 1,000, the maximum which the college is able to instruct effectively and to assimilate socially. The practical result of the discrimination against commuters will probably be to excude some of the less able among the young men who come from the Jewish quarter of Boston; but President Lowell, while standing as always against mere racial discrimination, is convinced that it is justified. Of late years there has been an antagonistic grouping of undergraduates as prejudicial to the members of the group as to the college...
...existing limitation of the Freshman class to 1,000 members will be continued with the added stipulation that this number is to include "those students who have been dropped in a previous year from Harvard College or the Harvard Engineering School and readmitted in September, as well as candidates from other colleges to registration as Provisional Freshman." The effect of this ruling will be to limit the number of men admitted from secondary schools to about...
...offered to a college man at every turn. Every student employment office is hounded with people who would have students sell silk handkerchiefs, ladies' rain coats, shoes, "ships, sealing wax", and I doubt not, "cabbages and kings." In every case a liberal commission is offered and there is "no limit to the amount of money a man can earn...
...requirement of an ample quantity of manuscript and the strict enforcement of a time limit on assignments would in all probability stimulate the student to the degree of effort demanded by the faculty. Such mechanical rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity...
...secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...