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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the tutorial system should not be made the basis of the House Plan--the House Plan is larger and wider in its implications than this system which is merely part of a coordinated education--yet it must be expanded and broadened as the facilities for its administration increase. Chemistry is now the only major department that remains without a general examination and there is no valid reason for its failure to fall into line...
Until the present no distinction other than academic has been made between Engineering and College undergraduates. All the traditions of Harvard rise in protest against such a division, a separation on the basis of vocation rather than of natural affinities. At present, as far as can be learned, the majority of Engineering School students room with men in the College. It is imperative that these be not still further excluded from this valuable series of contacts outside the scientific laboratory merely by their choice of profession...
...largest contribution, $1000, will be made to the Red Cross. $250 will be given to the Cambridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America, $250 to the Salvation Army, and a like amount to the Near East Relief. The Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students will receive $500, as will the International Student Service for student work in Bulgaria...
...furniture might well be varied and so managed that the students can choose the type they prefer. The realization of such a plan would allow each man to incorporate his own furniture with the preferable pieces provided by the College. Under this plan the House Plan atmosphere could be made more attractive due to the fact that it would be more personal and individual. This affords another means of averting the danger of standardization which could easily prove disastrous to a project so closely incorporated as the House Plan...
...classifications in that part of the scheme which runs from electrons to meteorites, which is called the Microcosmos. The subject most emphasized in the lecture was the great importance of the study of shooting stars. He listed and described many problems towards which important contributions can be made by the careful scientific study of meteors and meteorites. "Studies of the brightness of shooting stars", he said. "Indicate that the earth's atmosphere 50 miles above the surface is of about the same temperature as at the surface itself. Further knowledge of the upper atmosphere will come through theoretical studies...