Word: locals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This time at least the Advocate is not careering through space remote from College life; it is a local paper dealing with Harvard questions old and new. The editors pay their respects to the Polo Club, the lecture system, the assistants in English A, and the buyers of printed notes. Two of the five prose articles attack in the good old way weak spots in our methods of instruction, and one shows how alcohol gradually drowns college ideals. Of the two poems, the longer may be called academic...
...intends in the future to pay more attention to the point of view section because a just criticism of college papers has always been that there is usually little suggestion of college about them. In the current number, for example, there are two letters on a subject of direct local and contemporary interest--the new method of assignment of rooms in Senior dormitories, these very letters, moreover, bringing out the point that articles in such a paper as the Advocate should be much more carefully thought out and should be expressed in a more nearly final form than are such...
...courses in Government. The first of these, Government 10, will deal with English National Government and will be open to undergraduates. The other two, which are primarily for graduates but open also to undergraduates who have had some training in history and political science, are to deal with English Local Government, Government 18, and with "The Psychological Conditions of Modern Government," Government 31. Mr. Wallas is well known to American readers through his recent remarkable book on "Human Nature in Politics"; and, besides being a scholar of international reputation, he has had much active experience in English politics...