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...Lowellian Apollo has packed some charming sagittae into his current Pharaetra. Aegis-bearers John Berendt and Jeremy Johnston have avoided the inept high seriousness which has so often encumbered the Lowell House poetry magazine, and have come up with a group of pieces composed by scers, whose auburn hair Melpomene herself has no doubt bound with the fragrant laurel...
...most awesome to the Lowell denizens, however, were the complaints heard in Adams. "They complained," said one Lowellian. "You know," said another, "those guys looked at the fresh fruit salad, and they looked at the oyster stew, and one of them said to me, 'Oh no, not again...
However, many of the disadvantages which prompted President Conant to abandon the old Lowellian requirement linger about this new scheme. Neither the large survey courses nor the more advanced specialized courses can convey to a concentrator in a different field the "academic discipline" of any given area. There will almost certainly be a rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only...
When President Conant, upon his election last spring, welcomed newspaper photographers and posed for them willingly, the metropolitan papers unctuously hailed an end of the Lowellian tradition of presidential aloofness. But the camermen were wondering last night whether their New Deal at Harvard was going to materialize after...
...affidavit given the courts in the Tutoring Bureau case, has set forth the views of University Hall on the use of outlines, abridgements, and all similar intellectual crutches. He points out that the use of summaries is the direct opposite of that which the word "education," in the Lowellian sense, implies. It is added, moreover, that it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods if the work is not done from the assigned books. Delivered of these powerful arguments against the Bureau, Dean Hanford proceeds further to demolish it by remarking that the use of short cuts tends...